Reply #67: This is what I've been able to put down this morning... [View All]

Sorry, but I've been busy already today...

This is the angle from which I’ve been approaching this issue since I joined DU in the days following the election.. You’re correct your observation that we have two separate issues here.

I agree completely with your observation that we need not re-invent the wheel. Apart from the fact that we could we could hardly get a floor vote on such a proposed amendment, much less the 2/3 majority needed to pass it, the 15th Amendment and the Voting Rights Acts are sufficient basis to bring action for the voter suppression schemes that we saw in Ohio and other places about the country.

I must however also agree with my friend OldLeftieLawyer in his observation that there are a number of actions already in the works. For one, I know the the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is and has been involved in this matter, but it will be at least a few more weeks before we hear about their suits. The NAACP-LDF is the organization through which the former dean of my law school alma mater Charles Hamilton Houston and his star pupil Thurgood Marshall began working toward the Brown v. Board of Education decision in the mid 1930’s. Even still there are cases that we do know about such as Moss v. Bush, The Ohio Democratic Party v. J. Kenneth Blackwell and National Voting Rights Institute vs. J. Kenneth Blackwell. These thing DO take time. Unfortunately, he wheels of justice turn very slowly.