Conservative Judges Producing Liberal Results

JUST TODAY, A FEDERAL COURT ruled that the new voter I.D. law in Texas is unconstitutional, and presumably, the ruling will be appealed and taken to the Supreme Court, which will, in all probability, vote four to four to uphold. The fifth circuit court ruled that the law requiring every voter to present a picture I.D. creates an unwarranted impediment to voting, especially among the poor. The long fight ahead will determine whether all such laws in other states as well as Texas are constitutional; from the way things look now, they would all appear to be in great danger. Even now conservatives across the fruited plain can be heard wailing and gnashing. No wonder America's right wing is so bitterly angry. Its a liberal world. Obamacare, gay marriage, transgender rights, abortion rights, planned parenthood, and now voter rights, all liberal causes, have been securely upheld by the nation's highest court, a conservative court at that. It almost seems that conservative justices often rule in favor of liberal positions, because, well, liberal positions are correct positions. We need to make voting easier, not harder. For that matter, why not vote, as an option, online, on weekends, whatever makes it easier. conservatives, of course, want nothing more than to reduce the number of voters, to get rid of people likely to vote for liberals, people like blacks and Hispanics. If conservatives had their way, only the wealthy and white would cast ballots. But let's give the republican party some credit. Although the conservative mob in Cleveland is an angry lynch mob and little else, at least, at long last, you are beginning to see some people of color sprinkled throughout the crowd. Tokens, to be sure, made for TV, and few and far between; but hell, wasn't that long ago when any gathering of conservative republicans was as lily white as the driven snow.