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‘Meritless’: In Its Dying Days, Biden DOJ Sues GOP-Led City Council For Not Being … Hispanic Enough
Daily Caller ^ | 11 Jan, 2024 | Hudson Crozier

Posted on 01/12/2025 6:50:45 AM PST by MtnClimber

A Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit alleges that Hazleton, Pennsylvania’s city council elections violate federal law because not enough “Hispanic-preferred candidates” are winning – without defining what a Hispanic-preferred candidate is.

The DOJ sued the majority-Hispanic town Tuesday over its at-large election system in which voters across Hazelton vote to elect each district’s city council member, alleging it does not give Hispanics a fair chance at participation and violates a section of the Voting Rights Act that bans restricting voters based on race. The complaint fails to prove illegal discrimination and appears “meritless” on its face, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“What the complaint fails entirely to address is that Hispanic candidates are losing races not because of their race, but due to politics — if they run as Democrats, they are going to lose,” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former counsel for the DOJ, told the DCNF.

He helped the agency enforce the Voting Rights Act under the Bush administration.

“In the 2023 election for the city’s mayor, the incumbent Republican, Jeff Cusat, won in a landslide with 61% of the vote,” von Spakovsky said. “The Democratic Hispanic who ran against him, Vianney Castro, received only 28% of the vote.”


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenreich; doj; harassment; hazelton; hazleton; hispanic; lawfare; leftism; pennsylvania; persecution; unconstitutional; votingrights; weaponizeddoj

1 posted on 01/12/2025 6:50:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Doubling down on crazy as their time runs out.


2 posted on 01/12/2025 6:50:56 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I disagree with all “At Large” seats for roles that also have specific areas represented.

They always seem to be liberals that get them and they always do what the mayor wants—and mayors are libs, almost always.


3 posted on 01/12/2025 6:56:22 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MtnClimber

In my opinion, DOJ actions like this so close to the end of Pedo Joe’s term will do nothing more than piss people off.

Now, if Pedo Joe had the mental faculties needed to plan the intentional destruction of the Democrat party, THIS would be a good approach.

However, Joey is just a STUPID mean spirited waste of humanity, BUT Joey has enough on the ball for revenge regardless of the cost. Don’t leave Jilly out either. She sees the gravy train ending and she knows who did it.


4 posted on 01/12/2025 7:01:04 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MtnClimber

The Trump DOJ needs to sue the ass off of Garland’s former DOJ and all of its major players.


5 posted on 01/12/2025 7:12:42 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Deport that piggie, Marchan!!! NOW!!! Send his butt back to Colombia! He's milked America enough.)
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To: MtnClimber

What if the Hispanic was a descendant of a conquistador?


6 posted on 01/12/2025 7:14:15 AM PST by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: MtnClimber

How does a language define a race? Race was supposed to be immutable. Anyone can learn a language. Lots of second generatipn hispanics can’t speak spanish.


7 posted on 01/12/2025 7:33:08 AM PST by JeanLM
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To: MtnClimber

these people simply refuse to stop until Trump orders them to ...


8 posted on 01/12/2025 7:40:02 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: OHPatriot

JOEY HAS BEEN THAT MEAN SPIRITED PERSON ALL OF HIS LIFE-—DO NOT DOUBT THAT ONE LITTLE SMIDGEN


9 posted on 01/12/2025 7:41:37 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: MtnClimber

“because not enough “Hispanic-preferred candidates” are winning – without defining what a Hispanic-preferred candidate is.” Would they win if they were Smurfs?


10 posted on 01/12/2025 7:41:48 AM PST by kawhill (You cain't stop what's coming. It ain't all waitin' on you. That's vanity.)
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To: MtnClimber

What a Hispanic-preferred candidate is.

Look any place south of the border.


11 posted on 01/12/2025 8:10:49 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber

C’mon, ball less boneheads. Just use local law to say that it is racist and you won’t do it.
Quit playing their game.


12 posted on 01/12/2025 8:29:56 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: OHPatriot

it’s difficult to keep in mind that joe himself is cognizant of none of this ... it’s his kommie handlers that are doing all of this ... joe just signs whatever is stuck under his signing-pen ... he’d probably sign his own death warrant if they stuck the paper under his pen ... and the litterally evil handlers could care less about the Dem party: they’re just trying to get their final evil extremist destructive licks in before they’re kicked out for a while ...


13 posted on 01/12/2025 9:17:19 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: MtnClimber

DJT seems to have been a Hispanic preferred candidate...


14 posted on 01/12/2025 10:25:15 AM PST by DPMD
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To: MtnClimber

Just a story, but my congressional district has been represented by a conservative male for...well, ever. This last election a federal judge ruled that I should lose my representation and a black, liberal, corrupt democrat named “Shomari Figures” should now be the congressional representative from my area. They changed the district to include the whole black belt in Alabama. I live about 200 yards west of Hwy. 45. The other side of Hwy. 45 is still the white people district. They accidently got some white people in the new district.


15 posted on 01/12/2025 11:05:47 AM PST by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
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To: MtnClimber

They aren’t “White Hispanics?”


16 posted on 01/12/2025 1:23:12 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: JeanLM

Hispanic just means you’re from colonized by Spain. Anyone descending from Mexico (nowadays I highly doubt there’s anyone of pure Mexican tribal descent), Guatemala, Florida, Louisiana, Peru, Chile, Milan, Sicily, Morocco, Honduras, Argentina, Ecuador, etc etc are all Hispanic as they were all under Spanish rule at some point.

The only gray area gets into whether this is a geographic or an ethnic grouping. Is everyone born in Mexico Hispanic, or only those whose parentage traces back to someone from Mexico when it was under Spanish rule? Sure, most people would say yes to both. But apply the same to Florida: is everyone from Florida Hispanic, or only those with Tues back to Spanish Florida?

Texas was once part of Mexico, which was Spanish. So are all Texans Hispanic?

Me personally, I don’t (think, I haven’t traced the tree too much) I fall under Hispanic or Latino descriptors, but I do qualify as Mestizo (European and Tribal American mixed descendant).


17 posted on 01/12/2025 6:17:51 PM PST by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: Svartalfiar; JeanLM

Forgot to mention, “race” is another term that most people don’t properly understand. See my profile for a good, accurate summary of it.


18 posted on 01/12/2025 6:21:38 PM PST by Svartalfiar (-)
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