{"id":5121,"date":"2016-06-22T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2016-06-22T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:01:25","slug":"devious-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5121","title":{"rendered":"DEVIOUS LOGIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the Voting Rights Act that prevented the GOP from stealing the 2012 presidential election and so naturally, it had to go, and our profoundly anti-democracy right-wing Supreme Court majority gutted it soon after.<\/p>\n<p>Now, discriminatory voting restrictions will face much smoother sailing, and the Supreme Court&#8217;s corrupt partisanship could give us a Trump presidency. Ari Berman at the Nation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-gutting-of-the-voting-rights-act-could-decide-the-2016-election\/\">tells us<\/a> how.<\/p>\n<p>Why isn&#8217;t the Democratic alleged-leadership speaking up? Why isn&#8217;t Hillary speaking up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the Voting Rights Act that prevented the GOP from stealing the 2012 presidential election and so naturally, it had to go, and our profoundly anti-democracy right-wing Supreme Court majority gutted it soon after. Now, discriminatory voting restrictions will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}