Senator Ted Cruz goes after a Republican, ruffles the feathers of Democrats and the the elderly white Grey Lady tries to take away the heritage of Senator Ted Cruz.
Mr. Cruz, a Canadian-born lawyer who won an upset primary victory last year, is adamant in his own defense.
Is that really how one would describe Ted Cruz. Only if you were trying to ignore his heritage. By the end of the year, Marco Rubio will be Caucasian.
Found this interview with Dana Loesch in St. Louis. From July but it touches on voter ID in Mississippi and Alabama (which is still pending) and deals with predictions on Texas Voter ID. Interesting to hear in hindsight.
The bill allowing felons to automatically vote (which passed with GOP support in the Senate) is dead in the Virginia House. SJ 266 (Senator Lucas, Senator McEachin, Senator Petersen) was a constitutional amendment that would automatically restore voting rights. The bill was passed by the full Senate earlier in the session. A House subcommittee struck down the bill without a recorded vote.
Prediction: Facts won’t dissuade those most interested in taking power away from the states to run their own elections and sending it to Washington D.C.
Business Week: Elimination of Section 5 would open the way for renewed efforts to suppress black votes, Jones said. “If we lose it, we are going to go back, I can assure you of that,” said Jones, 49, from his office at New Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church. “I can see things happening if Section 5 is removed, and it frightens me.”
Ilya Shapiro at Cato:
“Many courts and legislatures in covered jurisdictions have labored to satisfy the VRA in the context of a cacophony of precedent — some that invokes only Section 5, some only Section 2, and some that references both sections. What’s more, certain elements of the two inquiries overlap, even as this and other courts have consistently maintained that — at least in some measure — they are distinct.”
Link here.
The ghost of Jim Crow makes a predictable and regrettable appearance in the Missouri house.
This time Representative Chris Kelly was to blame for the racialist hyperbole.
St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Not sure what Pennsylvania got out of this “compromise.” The “compromise” seems to track the most recent order from the state court regarding the November 2012 election.