Posted on 03/16/2012 10:03:34 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
On Monday, Eric Holder’s Department of Justice barred the proposed Texas voter ID law from taking effect. Writing for the DOJ, Assistant Attorney General Robert Perez claimed that the law requiring all Texas voters to present a state issued photo ID at the polls would “adversely affect Hispanic voters” because they are “more than twice as likely not to have valid photo identification than non-Hispanic registered voters.”
It is hardly surprising that Democrats hold nationwide antipathy for voter ID laws. After all, as it is the left which benefits from criminal misadventure at the polls, anything which tends to interfere with turning the votes of the dead, the illegal and the non-existent into a Democrat victory must be fought with every resource of the Obama Administration.
The proposed Texas law and a similar South Carolina statute rejected by the DOJ last year were both victims of Eric Holder’s deliberately disingenuous use of the 1973 Voting Rights Act which requires states or areas with “a history of voting discrimination” to have proposed changes to their voting laws “pre-approved” by the federal government. (2)
The fact is, the Obama Regime used Section 5 of the VRA to mask its real goal of enabling voter fraud by claiming the proposed legislation of both states to be in violation of the Act’s aim of ensuring fair and honest voting standards.
And just as it had in the case of South Carolina, the DOJ barred the revision to the Texas law by completely ignoring a decision of the United States Supreme Court.
In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled legal and Constitutional the newly enacted State of Indiana statute requiring all...
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Court rulings only matter when leftists win and then its “settled law”
The Do-Nothing Congress continues to usurp their duties the same as Holder.
IGNORE HOLDER.
It’s just that easy. Let the DOJ try to send an agent to every poll on election day, for the whole day.
Perhaps Congress should start creating a bill giving DOJ employees election day off so they can vote.
But they will most assuredly have an I.D. For:
Food stamps
Section 8
WIC
Unemployment
SSDI
LibrAry card
Two forms of identification to get a job
ETC, etc, etc...
He’s ignoring clear precedent and blatantly abusing his office to affect the election. This is the most corrupt DOJ head in history. It’s really breathtaking.
On WBAP this morning a caller was going on about older people not being able to get ID because they didn’t drive. He had to take his mother to get her this and that but I guess he couldn’t take her to get an ID.
All their excuses are very shallow.
It’s time for Perry to come out and say “Mr Obama. This is Texas.. We don’t take kindly to big city Chicago thugs telling us what to do. We’ll do as we like in Texas and we dare you to find where it says in the Constitution that our ID laws are in violation”
Did anyone ask how she got to the polling station?
When are people on our side going to grow a pair and STAND UP TO THIS ILLEGITIMATE REGIME???
Did anyone ask how she got to the polling station?
The Founders had it right - not a land owner = no vote. Can you imagine the government we would have if only productive citizens could vote?
It would be wonderful.
So what prevents TX and SC from suing Holder in federal court? This would be an emergent matter for TX, since our primary is on 5/29, and with the precedent it should be an open and shut case.
Many of us in the productive class rent. I own the house, I rent the land (mobile home).
that said.. I’d still be receptive to giving up my vote to return to the founders intent.
Exactly why I used the words "productive citizen" instead of landowner. Anyone who lives off the government taxpayers should not be allowed to vote.
Texas HAS sued Holder and the DOJ. In fact, knowing what the Regime was going to decide even before the proposed change was offered to the DOJ, Texas had the suit all ready to go.
Unfortunately, federal courts (and even state courts) are often just as corrupt as the rest of the government. So if Texas, in its appeal, runs into liberal judges, they will have to appeal to a higher court meaning the law will not be in effect by the time the election rolls around. And THAT is exactly what the left wants!!!!!!
I really think TX should just check IDs anyway. What is going to happen? Are they all going to get arrested for checking ids? Get sued? If they get sued, they’ll win. The Supremes already sided with them.
If they don’t have ID how do they get welfare?!
I agree. what law have they broken by asking for ID?
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