Posted on 05/30/2012 2:22:47 PM PDT by Nachum
Attorney General Eric Holder told a council of African American church leaders Wednesday that the "sacred" right to vote is under assault nationwide, with federal lawsuits and at least a dozen state laws that could weaken — or block — minority access to the ballot box this fall.
Forty-seven years after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, "overt and subtle forms of discrimination still exists," Holder said in a speech before the Council of Black Churches. The twin factors of lingering bias and systematic assaults from the right, he said, means that "for the first time in our [lifetimes], we are failing to live up to one of our most noble ideals" - the right to equal access to the vote.
The brief speech was a call to arms for the black church, which since the days of the civil rights movement has been active in fighting for equal voting right for minorities. Holder, who was warmly received by the audience, told them his office is "aggressively" taking on the task of protecting that right, including challenging several state lawsuits that would overturn key provisions of the Voting Rights Act involving redistricting in Southern states and strict new voter I'd laws that could keep minorities, the elderly and young people of all races from casting ballots in the 2012 election - which analysts expect will be decided by a narrow margin.
(Also on POLITICO: Voting Rights Act under siege)
Ensuring that everyone who is qualified can vote "is one of our highest priorities," Holder told the council, adding that during his watch the Justice Department has taken on more than 100 cases involving voting within the past year, "a record number." Since President Bush re-authorized the Section 5 provision of the Voting Rights Act, which requires some Southern states
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Re your list of 25 things that require an ID:
“But, but... those things are important—that’s why an ID is necessary.” Major /S.
This should separate the Christian pastors from the pretenders. After all, the government is asking them to lie to their congregations.
Strict new voter what laws?
Where are the editors?
Where are the proof readers?
Where did this person go to school?
I overlook things like this in a post or a blog but this is (supposedly) a professional reporter at a professional news organization.
Yes I know it is a nit-pick, but if they are unable to report what is going on clearly then why should I give their opinion any weight?
(Oh and Holder is a race baiting liar, but that was obvious from the get go. So I will not comment on that)
Good list. If one doesn’t have ID to do any of the above, then they shouldn’t be voting.
The list omits such things as welfare, food stamps, and any other "benefits."
What a racist lowlife. NO ONE is putting up barriers for blacks to vote.
I’m thankful and respect those who have worked hard to help make us a colorblind society; many doing so by simply trying to love their neighbors as God asks. Sadly it doesn’t take much to stir up the pot, just hateful speach from a weak self serving excuse of a man...
Can you imagine what the leftists would’ve done if AG Alberto Gonzales would have said this to a group of evangelical (from predominantly white churches) pastor’s?
Excuse me...yes we are and we will continue to do so. Prove me wrong.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2889525/posts
Hopefully we'll get them both.
Besides these disqualifications, he is the 2d biggest racist in the nation.
vaudine
There is no US Constitutional right to vote!
That would eliminate half of "Holder's People" from voting for handouts.
Yes, Holder is lying. He knows he is lying and anybody with any sense at all knows he is lying.
Holder is deliberately stoking the fire of civil and racial distress. Anyone who loves his/her country will call him out on this.
“Rats are very dangerous when they’re cornered...”
That’s not true for our American leftist rats. They will cry, beg, bawl, surrender, plead and piss in their pants when confronted.
Confront any American leftist rat in a dark parking lot and you’ll see.
There’s a reason why American leftists are cheering on camel-jockey jihadists and never criticize them. The cowards hope to recruit goat-humpers to kill their enemies - you and me - because they don’t have the guts to do it themselves.
Your attitude automatically proves you wrong and we near the District know more than what you hear or read. My sources in Justice tell me Mr. Holder is getting into a real pickle about lots of things.
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