Sam Spade
SamSpade
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« on: February 19, 2012, 03:48:00 PM » |
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There was an opinion in 2009 (don't want to look up the name) where the Supreme Court basically said that if Congress doesn't rework or repeal Section 5 in the next few years, we're going to get rid of it. Kennedy joined in this, so it was rather obvious then that Section 5 was on extremely weak ground. Since then, Congress has done nothing.
When muon2 talked about how aggressive the Justice Dep't was going to be in Section 5 enforcement, I pointed out this decision, and said they wouldn't likely go after anything except for Texas and maybe Virginia because of abject fear of losing the power.
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