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U.S. Senate vote on Utah's 4th seat likely in mid-September
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The only hope at this point is that President Bush has promised to veto the measure. If the Senate passes it, and if the President veto's it then we need to make the political lives of Senators Hatch, Bennett, Represenatives Bishop and Cannon tough.
They have clearly put Washington DC over the Constitution. What is gauling for me is that it is sooooo plain and simple. It is right there. It could not be more clear had the framers of the Constitution put a circle around it and dressed it up with cute stars.
In the last days good will be bad, up will be down, left will be right and plain language will be ignored.
I had the chance to listen to Congressman Bishops explanation and it was incredibly pathetic. I hold out hope that some Supreme Court case ruling took place since the late 1970's that would give Congress this authority, and I can't find it. Nor can our Federal delegation point it out.
IF the Senate passes this I am going to actively start raising money for a legal challenge. I actually think it should come from either the Governor's office (he has drunk the kool-aide so to speak and supports this), or the Legislature.
The particular reasons as to why the infant Congress would deny basic democratic rights to the citizens of its capital in 1801 is irrelevant. Times change; what might have worked for the District then certainly does not work now. The pertinent info, the Main Idea that you All Knowing constitutional nay-sayers need to hone-in on, is that Congress has used its power in the past to address voting rights in DC, not through a constitutional amendment, but via simple legislation. Basic statute. And mind you, this was an era when many members of Congress were themselves AUTHORS of the U.S. Constitution. They knew what they were doing.
This establishes precedent. Which is the bedrock of legal and constitutional interpretation. The DC Voting Rights Act is constitutional.