{"id":9569,"date":"2013-06-27T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9569"},"modified":"2013-06-27T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T21:38:00","slug":"us-supreme-court-encourages-voter-suppression-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/06\/27\/us-supreme-court-encourages-voter-suppression-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Preclears Voter Suppression (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/articles\/2013\/06\/27\/conservative-supreme-court-justices-hypocritical-on-voting-rights\">hypocritical<\/a> demolishment of the Voting Rights Act, followed by a <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/26\/current-conditions\/\">rush<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/06\/27\/2223471\/six-states-already-moving-forward-with-voting-restrictions-after-supreme-court-decision\/\">certain states<\/a> to impose discriminatory voting restrictions, inspired this three-verse limerick:<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court Preclears Voter Suppression (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Sev&#8217;ral states who once had to preclear<br \/>\nAny voting law change, gave a cheer:<br \/>\nThe Supremes set them free<br \/>\nTo restrict votes with glee,<br \/>\nWhich they&#8217;re doing with plans in high gear.<\/p>\n<p>In its holding, both sneaky and bold,<br \/>\nThe Sup Court said the formula&#8217;s old,<br \/>\nAnd so need not be heeded&#8211;<br \/>\nA new one is needed:<br \/>\nIt freed states to fair-voting withhold.<\/p>\n<p>Some are doing just that with great speed,<br \/>\nWhich proves that old formula&#8217;s need&#8211;<br \/>\nThat it wasn&#8217;t outdated:<br \/>\nBad intent&#8217;s unabated,<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s nothing to stop its stampede.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s hypocritical demolishment of the Voting Rights Act, followed by a rush by certain states to impose discriminatory voting restrictions, inspired this three-verse limerick: The Supreme Court Preclears Voter Suppression (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Sev&#8217;ral states who once had to preclear Any voting law change, gave a cheer: The Supremes set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,23,21,20,10,76,2,168,6,7,3,9,13,610],"tags":[307,1345,1278,1075,1089,616,1246,2312,2313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9574,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}