TPM: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) praised the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act Tuesday, claiming that a provision struck from the legislation had "imposed an extraordinary intrusion into state sovereignty."
Yeah, they said the same thing when we forced them to end slavery. In fact, the Voting Rights Act was a direct response to conservative efforts to answer the end of slavery with a massive terror campaign designed to among other things, keep black people from voting.
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union in order to fight for slavery. Given that a return to slavery is out of the question, it stands to reason they would again want the right to keep black people from voting. We understand why conservatives do what they do, but that doesn't make them any less putrid and disgusting.
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