"Too much federalism? Should Kennedy and Johnson not have intervened in the sixties? Perhaps a HAVA should have been written, but not the one we have now. Elections among the states by 2002 were in shambles and required federal intervention.
Quixotic, perhaps, as
the blog affirmed: "[T]he chance that Congress would overcome sectional and
partisan tensions in order to produce a new formula is even smaller than the
prospect of Congress raising judicial salaries."
The public thinks little of Congress for a good reason. Where are the DoJ and President Obama when we need them? An executive order might work to curb Jim Crow again.
Mr. President, as you
said in your 2012 acceptance speech in reference to the too-long lines of underprivileged
voters, "We've got to do something about that."
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