Posted on 03/04/2024 2:36:45 AM PST by Libloather
Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in Selma, Alabama on Sunday where he pledged to fight voter ID laws and other election integrity measures that he deemed "discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary."
Their appearance marked the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama.
Speaking at a Selma church service to mark the anniversary of the attack by Alabama law officers on civil rights demonstrators, Garland recounted the history of voting rights since the end of slavery – a history which, he told the crowd, has "never been steady" for Black Americans and "other voters of color."
He lamented that in recent years, certain measures such as voter ID laws and redistricting maps have made it harder "for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect the representatives of their choice."
"Those measures include practices and procedures that make voting more difficult; redistricting maps that disadvantage minorities; and changes in voting administration that diminish the authority of locally elected or nonpartisan election administrators," Garland told worshippers at Selma's Tabernacle Baptist Church, the site of one of the first mass meetings of the voting rights movement. "Such measures threaten the foundation of our system of government."
Garland said the DOJ was "fighting back." He pointed to having doubled the number of lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, and his legal challenges to state and jurisdictions to implement when he deemed "discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements. Polls consistently show that huge majorities of Americans favor voter ID.
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No surprise since democrats don’t want honest elections because they KNOW they would never win that way.
“and voter ID requirements”
Theft of Elections are the only reason for not requiring Voter ID’s.
Texas “requires” Voter ID’s. Period.
Tomorrow is the day of our Primary Elections.
I will be there.
Gotta keep ‘em on the plantation! Promises made, promises broken. So when is the fight against proof of ID for buying firearms gonna start? Asking for a friend......
I can’t remember now who did this, but I saw a video recently where a conservative interviewed random black people on the street and asked them if they had ID, or knew how to get ID. To a person, they looked at him like he was insane, and all answered that of course they had ID, and they certainly knew where to get one. When he explained that he was asking because some politicians were saying that requiring people to show ID to vote was “racist” because blacks didn’t have IDs and couldn’t get them, they reacted like he was a space alien. They also thought requiring ID was just common sense, and were offended that anyone would say they couldn’t get an ID because they are black. It was fantastic, and it’s on YouTube. I just wish I could remember who did it.
Yes, I remember that video. Numerous statistically valid polls also bear out the fact that blacks are in favor of voter I.D.
This guy is working his way to the top of my hate um list. He should pump septic systems, that’s all he is good for, if that.
I voted last Friday (3/01) in North Carolina’s Early Voting.
It was painless and quick with OpScan paper ballots, as usual.
I handed the poll worker my driver’s license and she looked me up quickly (I did not have to spell out my name as I usually do) and then, as she held my DL, she asked me what my address was. That surprised me. It may be a holdover from the previous process.
Who doesn’t have an ID?
Insane!!! We cannot last much longer like this, unless God Himself intervenes!! May it be so Lord~~
But everyone they were speaking to has photo ID...
Even if they dont drive they do get SNAP etc...
Nobody in TN...
They gave out free IDs to any that didnt have one years ago...
An AG who is fighting ID and election integrity laws!! Garland is another Marxist...
How did I make your ping list????
Kindly remove me.
Thank you.
The one I saw was from Benny Johnson in Georgia:
LINK: Ami Horowitz-How white liberals really view black voters
Brilliantly done.
Someday the majority of blacks will recognize that while it is true that Conservatives may or may not be their allies in various aspects, Leftists are their enemy in nearly every aspect.
And the best they can expect from the Left is support for the black community as a quid pro quo...a vote for Leftists may entitle them to some government benefit of some kind, but more likely, the Leftists in government use their support to keep them on the "Leftist Plantation", virtual, if not actual slaves to the Left.
There’s only one reason to not require voter ID, fraud. In deep, deep blue Connecticut I’ve been voting since 1972 and always had to show ID.
Fighting AGAINST election integrity! Tells you exactly and quite clearly the goals and methods of the Democrat party.
General Merrick Garland pledged to fight voter ID laws.
Translation: Every vote is for a democrat vote.
Democrats twisting Trumps words to fit their agendas.
He’s clearly an insurrectionist
such as voter ID laws and redistricting maps have made it harder “for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect the representatives of their choice.”
= = =
Just map out some new districts, south of the border.
They can mail in thier votes, or just e-mail the final talley.
Joe 10 million, Trump zero.
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