Why did the SCOTUS say keep punishing the Rs?

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/14/news/la-pn-supreme-court-rnc-voter-fraud-20130114



WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to lift a 30-year consent decree that bars the Republican National Committee from targeting racial and ethnic minorities in its efforts to end fraudulent voting.

The justices without comment turned down an appeal from RNC lawyers who said the decree has become “antiquated” and is “increasingly used as political weapon” by Democrats during national campaigns.

 

I made a thread about this yesterday but its gone

 

even your right wing packed SCOTUS cant make a case in your defense because of the FACTS in this one folks.

Your right wing party CHEATS its patootee off.


WHY????


because the people don't want you

 

The republican party has cheated and been caught doing so for DECADES.

its why there is this MASSIVE court case and decades long record.


why don't you know about this?

 

Reminds me of nothing happening after the Black Panthers did what the DNC is accusing the RNC of doing.

 

This is NOT your imaginings.

its a scotus denial that the R party is being decent with voters.

they said basically KEEP punishing them when they cheat voters

 

What exactly do you think the Black Panthers did?

 

what does it mnatter it was NO WHERE as EVIL as what the R party has been doing to voters for Decades

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This issue is packed with case after case of the republican cheating voters of color

 

The same thing the Republicans are accused of. They were accused of putting police at polling places to intimidate voters. This agreement makes the RNC go through a process if they want to put anyone at the polling places.

 

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-10-25/news/mn-7435_1_republican-national-committee



GOP Memo Admits Plan Could 'Keep Black Vote Down'

October 25, 1986|From the Washington Post


NEWARK, N.J. — A Republican National Committee official calculated that a so-called ballot security program in Louisiana "could keep the black vote down considerably," according to documents released in federal court Friday.

The documents and court hearing were the latest developments in a controversy over the GOP's ballot program that Democrats maintain is aimed at reducing minority turnout. The Republicans say the program's sole purpose is to purge ineligible voters from voting roles.





In an Aug. 13 memo the court made public Friday, Kris Wolfe, the Republican National Committee Midwest political director, wrote Lanny Griffith, the committee's Southern political director, and said of the Louisiana campaigning:

"I know this race is really important to you. I would guess that this program will eliminate at least 60-80,000 folks from the rolls. . . . If it's a close race . . . which I'm assuming it is, this could keep the black vote down considerably."

Unseals Document

She said in the memorandum that the program had been approved by Gregory Graves, deputy political director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.






right from the TOP of the party

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/14/us-usa-court-votingrights-decree-idUSBRE90D0OE20130114

 

In what way have the Republicans cheated?? Tell us , if you can..

 

I did

why are you pretending I didn't?

 

and then in 1986 they were caught breaking that consent decree yet again.

Like EVERY election.

THIS thread is about the SCOTUS case which includes ALL those cheating cases of the republicans.

The scotus said

let them be punished

 

why do you pretend this decades of court cases that went all the way to the SCOTUS doesnt exist?

 

Never heard a thing about Black Panthers putting police at polling places. I'm aware that True the Vote harassed ethnic minorities at polling places; demanding id which is expressly prohibited by law.

If you're thinking that there was something wrong in 2008 where two Black Panther members were certified as poll watchers, you're right. One was carrying a billy club, a weapon, and was asked to leave. He did. There is nothing wrong with Black Panthers volunteering in their communities. At least that's the conclusion that the justice came to under the Bush administration.

 

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/consent+decree

A consent decree, as its name plainly suggests, is an agreement, not a punishment. More often than not it's a way for the guilty party to escape judgment...and punishment by agreeing to mend its evil ways.

Another fairly obvious fact is that when a party makes a sworn promise to a judge in court to abandon their wicked ways and walk the straight and narrow, there are no "taksie-backsies". The courts expect the would-be defendant in a consent decree to change forever. And in fact it's the job of the courts to hold them to their promise.

Also note that the GOP is not a law enforcement agency! They have no authority or police powers to "fight" crimes that aren't actually being committed.

 

http://www.brennancenter.org/


this place has links to all the cases



there are tons of cases where the Rs cheated voters OUT of their votes

The Republican party hates democracy

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great post

 

gee



I prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that one party is from the top down trying to DESTROY democracy in this country and you people are not very interested?

 

Doubt they could break the consent decree in 86 when it was put in place in 87.

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Wow, so you think black panthers with nightsticks outside of a polling place is not intimidating?

 

The case began in 1981 when the RNC created a “national ballot security task force” that, among other things, undertook mailing campaigns targeted at black and Latino neighborhoods in New Jersey. If mailers were returned undelivered, party activists put those voters on a list to be challenged if they showed up to cast a ballot. In addition, the party was alleged to have hired off-duty law enforcement officers to “patrol” minority neighborhoods on election day.

The DNC sued the RNC in federal court, alleging its activities violated the Voting Rights Act and were intended to suppress voting among minorities. Rather than fight the charges in a trial, the RNC agreed to a consent decree promising to “refrain from undertaking any ballot security activities … directed toward [election] districts that have a substantial proportion of racial or ethnic minority populations.”

The consent decree has remained in effect, and DNC lawyers say they have gone to court in states such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Pennsylvania to challenge Republican activities that appear to target mostly black precincts. Both sides agree, however, that the consent decree does not forbid “normal poll watching” by Republican officials.



http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/14/news/la-pn-supreme-court-rnc-voter-fraud-20130114

 

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/14/news/la-pn-supreme-court-rnc-voter-fraud-20130114


the above is from the 1986 article about the NEW cheating of voters

 

Does not support breaking the decree that was put in place in 87 and will expire in 2017.

 

It was a black district

why were those white republican people hovering a black voting place that was not their voting place?


to cause trouble

and they did

 

So you think that union police are all white and republican?