Yoo Approves Torture of Constitution
By Via Edroso — whose roundup has plenty of great/depressing stuff as always — John Yoo is exultant that the same federal government that has the power to torture people without due process no longer possesses the tyrannical authority to enforce the 15th Amendment:
Do conservatives have a lot more to be happy about today than yesterday? Yes. Today, the Supreme Court struck down the most onerous element of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Shelby County v. Holder.
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Shelby shows that the Court — albeit by a 5-4 majority — finally came to grips with reality. The Voting Rights Act worked. But it was an extraordinary remedy that intruded on state sovereignty over elections. And like all extraordinary remedies, it was only for unusual times. Those times have come to an end.
Appropriately, as with all defenses of Shelby Yoo never quite gets around to explaining what constitutional provision the Voting Rights Act violated. But don’t worry, the “valid federal legislation becomes unconstitutional if it is effective at attaining the end toward it is directed” clause of the Constitution is totally in there, right next to the amendment repealing everything Article I says about military affairs.