Scalia: Voting Rights Act Is ‘Perpetuation Of Racial Entitlement’

Those who think it doesn't matter who is president, take note. It's not true. For one thing, their appointments to the supreme and appeals courts are lifetime appointments, and can affect our whole lives, and those of our children.

Scalia's comment is esp. outrageous coming just a few months after our democracy was subverted by the election of a majority of Republicans to the U.S. House, when a majority of Americans voted for Democrats, due to gerrymandering by Republican governor's, an election where many minorities were deliberately deprived of their right to vote by Republican governments

I remember the days of literacy tests, the days when minorities were liable to be beaten, even killed, for trying to vote.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/27/1646891/scalia-voting-rights-act-is-perpetuation-of-racial-entitlement/

By Nicole Flatow and Ian Millhiser posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Feb 27, 2013

There were audible gasps in the Supreme Court’s lawyers’ lounge, where audio of the oral argument is pumped in for members of the Supreme Court bar, when Justice Antonin Scalia offered his assessment of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. He called it a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”

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His inflammatory claim that the Voting Rights Act is a “perpetuation of racial entitlement” came close to the end of a long statement on why he found a landmark law preventing race discrimination in voting to be suspicious.

It should be noted that even one of Scalia’s fellow justices felt the need to call out his remark. Justice Sotomayor asked the attorney challenging the Voting Right Act whether he thought voting rights are a racial entitlement as soon as he took the podium for rebuttal.