We have a bigoted supreme court justice

2. Investigation of voter suppression.
According to a recent poll, 94% of likely black voters support Obama and 0% support Romney. Even in past elections, when the GOP candidate has used less racially polarizing rhetoric, 88% to 90% of black voters tend to identify as Democratic. This means that the Republican Party can actually win elections by suppressing black turnout, and this has influenced the GOP policy platform. As one Ohio Republican Party chair put it: "I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban -- read African-American -- voter-turnout machine."

Although we didn't know it at the time, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division under George W. Bush actively sabotaged civil rights investigations having to do with black voter suppression. It is no coincidence that the Bush administration ignored this issue, since the Florida Secretary of State's "error" - which purged 5,000 valid, registered black voters from the 2000 voter rolls - gave Bush the presidency in the first place. Under Romney, and especially under a Romney Supreme Court, it's a safe bet that conservative states' efforts to reduce black voter turnout will become more bold and aggressive.

Politicians who support suppression of black voters aren't just advocating racist policies (though they're certainly doing that); they're also attacking the foundation of liberal democracy itself. Voters should choose politicians, not the other way around.