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2012-01-10 -Election 2012

Texas case suggests Supreme Court may overhaul voting rights

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Posted by 2012-01-10 08:04|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Whew, by SCOTUS standards, that is the closest thing to a fist fight. I don't think I have ever heard of a Chief Justice having to intercede as a moderator.

This is going to be one heck of a SCOTUS term. They are going for some huge issues. Some of the cases:

1) Obamacare.
2) Warrant-less GPS surveillance by secretly attaching devices to private vehicles.
3) Strip searches for petty offenses (in this case for unpaid parking fines.)
4) Can voters overturn homosexual marriage enacted by legislatures or judges?
5) Most of Arizona's SP-1070 immigration law.
6) Race based college preferences.
7) Can investors sue corporations for insider trading?
8) Can individuals sue states to force compliance with federal law?
9) Can churches fire employees who are disabled?
10) Can foreign corporations be sued in the US for human rights violations in other countries?
11) Can a state force a non-union employee to pay a union for them to engage in political efforts in which they disagree?
12) Does EPA have dictatorial powers on scant accusation, and can someone sue against such dictates before they have been severely punished, so have actual damages?
13) Can congress put public domain works back under copyright for the benefit of whoever they give the copyright? (This includes H.G. Wells 'Things to Come', Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis', and the musical compositions of Igor Stravinsky.)
14) Can 'thought' be patented?

To explain this last one: one company holds patents to methods that assist doctors in figuring out through observation and testing the effective dosage of synthetic drugs to administer. This includes a drug testing kit. They argue that the results of using this kit are part of their patent. The appeals court agreed with them.

15) ASCAP is suing on the principle that selling music downloads requires they be paid royalties, in that it is the same as selling performance or broadcast of their works. Appeals court found against them, that downloading is copying, not performance.
16) The STOLEN VALOR Act.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-01-10 10:10|| 2012-01-10 10:10|| Front Page Top

#2 It is all for "fairness", so don't question your black robed overlords, serfs.

Posted by DarthVader 2012-01-10 10:20|| 2012-01-10 10:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks Moose for your list. Very informative.

Posted by Elmolung Platypus8530 2012-01-10 11:01|| 2012-01-10 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 When they make laws based on race they throw logic and fairness out of the window. How can it be defended when the only sense it makes is to screw the white man?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-01-10 12:01|| 2012-01-10 12:01|| Front Page Top

#5 ..don't forget the 'New White Man' - Asians who are actively discriminated against in the CA university system because they disproportionately rate higher in academic achievement and would displace others if counted as a 'minority' deserving unequal consideration. Of course CA's history of segregation and discrimination of Asians for the first half of the 20th Century gets ignored.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-01-10 12:07|| 2012-01-10 12:07|| Front Page Top

To explain this last one: one company holds patents to methods that assist doctors in figuring out -- through observation and testing -- the effective dosage of synthetic drugs to administer.

I hate process patents almost as much as I hate "look and feel" patents.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2012-01-10 13:06|| 2012-01-10 13:06|| Front Page Top

#7 ..don't forget the 'New White Man'

I guess all minorities are equal. It's just that some minorities are more equal than others. But what's gonna happen in California when the "old white man" becomes a minority? Can we start filing discrimination lawsuits then? Boy, that'd be fun.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-01-10 14:09|| 2012-01-10 14:09|| Front Page Top

#8 I guess all minorities are equal. It's just that some minorities are more equal than others.

The ones that provide the redistributive elites with work.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-01-10 15:31|| 2012-01-10 15:31|| Front Page Top

#9 In Texas, a three-judge federal district court heard arguments that the new map violates Section 2 of the VRA, which makes it illegal for states to enact voting changes with the purpose or effect of reducing racial minorities' voting strength.

Is the argument that the three-judge panel found the state guilty without "identifying specific statutory or constitutional violations." ?

How did that work?

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2012-01-10 17:48|| 2012-01-10 17:48|| Front Page Top

#10 You need to keep up, the white man is a minority in California now. per Wiki, which in this is likely accurate:
"No single racial or ethnic group forms a majority of California's population, making the state a minority-majority state. Non-Hispanic whites make up 40.1% of the population. Spanish is the state's second most spoken language, especially in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the US-Mexico border counties of San Diego and Imperial, and the San Joaquin Valley. Nearly 43% of California residents speak a language other than English at home, a proportion far higher than any other state.[

Posted by NoMoreBS 2012-01-10 18:41|| 2012-01-10 18:41|| Front Page Top

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