{"id":196425,"date":"2008-04-28T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/28\/bush-court-confirms-voting-while-black-is-a-offense\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T04:01:00","slug":"bush-court-confirms-voting-while-black-is-a-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/28\/bush-court-confirms-voting-while-black-is-a-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Court Confirms: Voting While Black is a Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They voted 6-3 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/vcCandidateFeed2\/idUSWAT00940020080428\">to uphold Indiana&#8217;s voter <strike>discrimination<\/strike> identification law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was actually 3 opinions each supported by 3 justices, and some legal analysts claim that there is hope, since one of the concurring opinions asked for evidence of voter disenfranchisement, but I see that as a vain hope.<\/p>\n<p>While I see Stephens ruling against the law if there is evidence, it is telling that there is<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> no evidence<\/span> of the sort of vote fraud that the law was intended to prevent having ever occurred in Indiana, and I see Roberts and Kennedy simply moving a bit to the right each time that such a challenge occurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They voted 6-3 to uphold Indiana&#8217;s voter discrimination identification law. It was actually 3 opinions each supported by 3 justices, and some legal analysts claim that there is hope, since one of the concurring opinions asked for evidence of voter disenfranchisement, but I see that as a vain hope. While I see Stephens ruling against &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1097,1000,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-constitution","category-elections","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}