Posted on 06/07/2012 10:58:22 AM PDT by CNSNews.com
(CNSNews.com) – Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee Thursday that the Justice Department will “vigorously use” anti-Jim Crow provisions in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent some southern states from purging ineligible voters from their rolls and enacting voter-I.D. laws.
"It is the position of this Department of Justice and certainly this Attorney General that we will vigorously defend and vigorously use Section 5. The need for it is still there."
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires several southern states and counties in states such as California and Florida to get federal “pre-clearance” before they change any voting eligibility laws or voting requirements or procedures.
Originally, the provision was designed to combat the legacy of racist Jim Crow laws passed in some states to prevent black people from voting.
Although Holder stressed the "need" to “vigorously use” Section 5, he did not say which states he thinks are pursuing racist policies that require Justice Department interference.
The Justice Department recently cited Section 5 in a letter to the state of Florida ordering it to stop an ongoing effort to purge ineligible voters from its rolls, focusing on illegal immigrants in particular. Five Florida counties are required to gain pre-clearance from Justice under Section 5.
Justice also blocked a South Carolina voter-I.D. law in December 2011, saying it violated Section 5’s prohibition on racially discriminatory voting laws. In March 2012, the department also blocked a Texas voter-I.D. law again saying that the requirement that people show a photo-I.D. to vote was racial discrimination.
For the record, I don't hate anyone. Emotion can interfere with fire control discipline. Kinda like "buck fever."
5.56mm
Right. One has to have an ID to do almost anything in this society except vote. This issue should be confronted head on and dealt with. The liberals want to preserve their voter fraud games and we need to shut that down.
Right. One has to have an ID to do almost anything in this society except vote. This issue should be confronted head on and dealt with. The liberals want to preserve their voter fraud games and we need to shut that down.
Sounds like the Federal Government has officially declared war on the states...if the states band together the states will win.
The fed gov’t has been overstepping the bounds,for many years with special intensity for the last three years, enough is enough already.
Gov Scott has told the DoJ to pound sand ........................................ FRegards
While poll taxes and literacy tests arguably applied only to blacks particularly in their enforcement, it is hard to see how requiring an ID card would. Unless you could show that this procedure was enforced only against a certain race or color. There is no evidence of that as the law is written or implemented.
Have you read Souter’s and Breyer’s dissents?
Anyone hired in the DOJ during the Obama regime needs to be fired and investigated for any illegal activity. Starting at the top.
Yeah, so much for “hope and change” “yes, we can” and that joke of “unity”
Wake up, America...these people are evil.
We’ve been in one for the past 3 years. :(
Buckle up, it’s only gonna get worse.
We’ve been in one for the past 3 years. :(
Buckle up, it’s only gonna get worse.
We’ve been in one for the past 3 years. :(
Buckle up, it’s only gonna get worse.
He’ll be gone soon.
Don’t be concerned about this goofball.He’s just trying to scare people.
Thanks for sharing.
Good info on federal court allowing State voter ID law.
It is a shame that the Democrat's “motor voter” law destroyed identification laws in this country.
I wish someone would tell Holder to sit down and shut up!””
I hope that I live long enough to see Holder perp walked into jail for the rest of his life with no parole & no option of a Presidential Pardon.
I fear that just before Romney is sworn in as the next President, there will be a massive list of Presidential pardons handed out by Obama.
Real justice would be that one of the guns he walked would figure in his demise. Not that I’m wishing him harm, you understand.
“It’s about time for the voting rights act to be repealed.”
In February 2006 President George W. Bush signed a 25 year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It had passed both houses with large bipartisan majorities.
Once again, the Republican Party was complicit with furthering the Democrat agenda.
Haven't they always? In my memory span, I cannot recall one time the Democrats needed the Republican help that the Republicans did not oblige. The Democrats did not need Republican help with obamacare.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.