Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Scalia Goes Stupid

No, Justice Scalia, the right to vote is not an ‘entitlement’ — MSNBC
Today in the arguments over the Voting Rights Act, Justice Scalia called the act a racial “entitlement.”

Got that? “Entitlement”? The right to vote is an “entitlement,” like Medicaid or food stamps.

No, it’s not.

Under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, the “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” That amendment was ratified in 1870 under the administration of President Grant, one of my heroes.

As we all know, it was put into effect–after a century of poll taxes, literacy tests, and other gimmicks to keep blacks from voting–only because of the Voting Rights Act of 1965...

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