Is Scalia a Troll?

(Article changed on March 11, 2013 at 19:09)

WHY DOES JUSTICE SCALIA HATE THE CONSTITUTION?    ARE VOTING RIGHTS SECURE?    

By William Boardman   Email address removed"> Email address removed  

15^TH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

[Ratified February 3, 1870]

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 

IS VOTING AS AMERICAN AS CHERRY PIE?  

Congress's 2006 renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act was the subject of 76 minutes of  [1]oral argument[1] before the [2]U.S. Supreme Court[2] in February, although Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, 77, gave the impression that he thought the legislation was really called the Voting Entitlement Act.   

Early in the hearing on a frequently non-compliant Alabama county's appeal of the [3]Voting Rights Act[3], Scalia tried leading Alabama's counsel into agreeing to a specious conclusion by citing the 1965 Senate vote of 79-18 to pass the act, compared to the Senate's 2006 unanimous 98-0 vote to renew the act. 

"It must have been even clearer in 2006 that these States were violating the Constitution," Scalia said.  "Don't you think that's true?" 

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