Zhge Pelosi (again): No Dream Team
Updated at 12:35 p.m. ETThe Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a section of the Voting Rights Act, weakening a tool the federal government has used for nearly five decades to block discriminatory voting laws.In a five-to-four ruling, the court ruled that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. That section of the landmark 1965 law provides the formula for determining which states must have any changes to their voting laws pre-approved by the Justice Department s civil rights division or the D.C. federal court. Nine states are required to get pre-clearance, as are certain jurisdictions in seven other states.                                        Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority that Section 4 is unconstitutional because the standards by which states are judged are  based on decades-old data and eradicated practices.  Nearly 50 years later, things h stanley cup becher ave changed dramatically,  Roberts wrote.  The tests and devices that blocked ballot access have been forbidden nationwide for over 40 years. Yet the Act has not eased [Section 5 s] restrictions or narrowed the scope of [Section 4 s] coverage formula  along the way. Those extraordinary and unprecedented featureswere reauthorized--as if nothing had changed.         Supreme Court holds off on major affirmative action decisionSupreme Cour stanley uk t will review Obama s re stanley drinking cup cess appointments    Joining Roberts in the majority opinion were Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.  Phik Lawmakers rush to gather support for spending bill as shutdown looms
President Barack Obama gives a stanley cup  thumbs up as he greets the crowd after speaking at Dobbins Elementary School in Poland, Ohio, Friday, July 6, 2012. Obama is on a two-day bus trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania.                                                      AP Photo/Susan Walsh                                         CBS News  POLAND, OHIO -- In a cramped elementary school - on a stage framed by American flags but absent the hay bales and picnic tables that dotted President Obama s visits yesterday to these select Northern Ohio communities, Mr. Obama spent less than 2 minutes discussing today s jobs numbers, acknowled stanley becher ging that  it s still tough out there.    We learned this morning that our businesses created 84,000 new jobs last month, and that overall means that businesses have created 4.4 million new jobs over the past 28 months, including 500,000 new manufacturing jobs. That s a step in the right direc stanley thermobecher tion. The President emphasized that simply recovering lost jobs is clearly not enough.   We can t be satisfied because our goal was never to just keep on working to get back to where we were back in 2007, he said.  I want to get back to a time when middle class families and those working to get into the middle class have some basic security. That s our goal. So we ve got to grow the economy even faster and we ve got to put even more people back to work.                                         Obama campaign senior adviser David Plouffe seemed to shrug off the jobs number

Zhge Pelosi (again): No Dream Team
Updated at 12:35 p.m. ETThe Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a section of the Voting Rights Act, weakening a tool the federal government has used for nearly five decades to block discriminatory voting laws.In a five-to-four ruling, the court ruled that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. That section of the landmark 1965 law provides the formula for determining which states must have any changes to their voting laws pre-approved by the Justice Department s civil rights division or the D.C. federal court. Nine states are required to get pre-clearance, as are certain jurisdictions in seven other states.                                        Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority that Section 4 is unconstitutional because the standards by which states are judged are  based on decades-old data and eradicated practices.  Nearly 50 years later, things h stanley cup becher ave changed dramatically,  Roberts wrote.  The tests and devices that blocked ballot access have been forbidden nationwide for over 40 years. Yet the Act has not eased [Section 5 s] restrictions or narrowed the scope of [Section 4 s] coverage formula  along the way. Those extraordinary and unprecedented featureswere reauthorized--as if nothing had changed.         Supreme Court holds off on major affirmative action decisionSupreme Cour stanley uk t will review Obama s re stanley drinking cup cess appointments    Joining Roberts in the majority opinion were Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.  Phik Lawmakers rush to gather support for spending bill as shutdown looms
President Barack Obama gives a stanley cup  thumbs up as he greets the crowd after speaking at Dobbins Elementary School in Poland, Ohio, Friday, July 6, 2012. Obama is on a two-day bus trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania.                                                      AP Photo/Susan Walsh                                         CBS News  POLAND, OHIO -- In a cramped elementary school - on a stage framed by American flags but absent the hay bales and picnic tables that dotted President Obama s visits yesterday to these select Northern Ohio communities, Mr. Obama spent less than 2 minutes discussing today s jobs numbers, acknowled stanley becher ging that  it s still tough out there.    We learned this morning that our businesses created 84,000 new jobs last month, and that overall means that businesses have created 4.4 million new jobs over the past 28 months, including 500,000 new manufacturing jobs. That s a step in the right direc stanley thermobecher tion. The President emphasized that simply recovering lost jobs is clearly not enough.   We can t be satisfied because our goal was never to just keep on working to get back to where we were back in 2007, he said.  I want to get back to a time when middle class families and those working to get into the middle class have some basic security. That s our goal. So we ve got to grow the economy even faster and we ve got to put even more people back to work.                                         Obama campaign senior adviser David Plouffe seemed to shrug off the jobs number