Cincinnati mayor backs voting amendment

For a city with such a conservative reputation 20 years ago, it's surprising that it would take a progressive step like endorsing a new voting rights amendment.

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley has become America's first mayor to publicly support a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution safeguarding the right to vote.

Doesn't the Constitution already protect the right to vote? By any real legal theory, yes. But this right has been chipped away at by right-wing lawmakers and activist judges. The Federalist Society terrorists on the Supreme Court even gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965!

The new amendment should be passed - quickly. But with the toilet-like miasma of obstructionism looming over Congress and state legislatures, don't count on it.