Quote Of The Day - Texas Voter Suppression Edition

"The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters."  -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who along with Justices Sotomayor and Kagan dissented with the right-wing majority decision to let the Texas voter I.D.  suppression law stand.  Earlier, U.S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos had issued an order throwing out the Texas law on the grounds that it constituted an unconstitutional poll tax and was clearly designed to suppress voting by Democratic constituencies. After the Republican-majority 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed Judge Ramos' ruling, the Justice Department and civil rights groups had appealed to the Supreme Court for relief.

This is why we needed the Voting Rights Act, and why its gutting by the Republican Supreme Court was so important to the desperate anti-democratic forces of the far right.