1965 Voting Rights Act denied Mississippi its "overeignty," candidate says

[Borealis]

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/mar/22/voting-rights-act-denied-mississippi-its-sovereign/

JACKSON — At a Tupelo campaign stop on Monday, Mississippi State Rep. Mark Baker, a Republican candidate for attorney general, said the 1965 Voting Rights Act violated
Mississippi's "sovereignty."

Current Attorney General Jim Hood, Baker said, should have joined other red states that successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to strike down the VRA's preclearance requirements
in 2013.

Under preclearance, the U.S. Department of Justice had to approve any changes to voting laws in certain southern states like Mississippi. When it passed the act in 1965, Congress
singled out those states because of their notorious history of denying African Americans the right to vote.

On Friday, though, Baker told the Jackson Free Press that he did not mean to suggest the VRA's preclearance provision was a bad thing when Congress adopted it in 1965. By the time
the question was before the Supreme Court in 2013, though, Baker thought Hood should have supported the lawsuit against it.

[Zonesylvania]

Oh goodie, more transparent racism. fuck off, you and the rest of the racist bastards who support this shit.

[Firgof Umbra]

"If our state decides we ought be able to drag out and shoot the guys by gum the Fed should sit back and let us! STATES RIGHTS!"

[F.X Clampazzo]

He'd probably get more votes in Mississippi if he just straight came out and said he wants to lynch the n*ggers. A good portion of his demographic are probably too busy fucking their cousin to have the extra brain power to allocate to decoding his rhetoric.

[chipsnapper]

If they just up and removed all of those laws saying "we don't need them anymore, we're past racism" imagine the hell that would break lose.

[Borealis]

That is literally the reasoning the most important court in the world used to remove part of the act.

[elix]

And then what immediately happened? Voter suppression that was, by sheer coincidence, racially partisan and targeted the minority Democrat vote in white-dominant red states.

But it's ok guys we're past racism it's current year

[Sableye]

the VRA should apply uniformly to every state when imposing new restrictions on voting, the flaw was assuming only the problems it fixed were only endemic to the south