Posted on 07/25/2013 8:42:58 AM PDT by smoothsailing
July 25, 2013
Two important developments this morning. First: Attorney General Eric Holder will announce that the Justice Department will initiate broad nationwide attacks on election integrity measures like Voter ID using the remaining portions of the Voting Rights Act. Last month, the Supreme Court struck down the 1965 triggers that forced 15 states to submit election law changes to Washington D.C. for federal approval.
Second: despite the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Justice Department announced it will try to recapture Texas under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act by showing the state continues to act with a racially discriminatory intent when passing voting laws.
Some of Holder’s reaction is because dozens of highly paid federal employees are now idled. James Buchanan won the Nobel Prize in Economics by explaining Holder’s actions as Public Choice Theory — bureaucrats announce policies to help bureaucrats, even if disguised as an act inspired by a public purpose.
For the last few weeks, Voting Section employees have taken extended coffee breaks, and even more extended lunches. But there was hope — outgoing Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez referred to the state of Louisiana as the “full employment for Voting Section lawyers state.”
That means Governor Bobby Jindal can expect more targeting by the DOJ Voting Section.
But this announcement is all about the midterm elections. Obama wants the House back, and the Justice Department is again being turned into a political weapon using the cloak of Civil Rights. This has become the new civil rights model. Because Democratic interests are so perfectly aligned with the civil rights establishment — in no small measure because of extreme block voting by American blacks — the DOJ is now an arm of the DNC.
Will states have the competence and ability to withstand Holder’s attack? There are ways. Whether they will use them remains to be seen.
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Oh yeah, they’d do really really well in TX. I’d say about <1 minute.
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You and me both! Our federal government is disgusting right now!
Holder, along with his puppeteer, needs to sit down and STFU.
Either Holder starts doing his job properly, and focus on the things that need to be taken care of, or he needs to be impeached...
I would settle for the latter...
When you stack up states that are doing what is necessary to ensure as much as possible the integrity and purity of our election processes, and he and the administration are doing what they can to steal one more election, it seems to me their efforts do meet the criteria of high crimes and misdemeanors...
Since our congressional reps know this already, lighting a fire under their collective arses is in order...And they need to know we expect something to happen, for them to show a little bit of political courage for once...
Enough is enough!!!
Time to close the IRS and trim the DOJ until Holder gets the message.
Flat tax or fair tax or whatever, can’t be better than the status quo
Let’s all move to TX and keep it blue
I would be all for amnesty if those that are given a pass are NOT allowed to vote in ANY election for 25 years...
(3....2.....1.....) ;-)
Then we will all see what this is really all about...
Oops...Do you mean a different political shade???
Enough of this crap!
Revolt is coming.
They want to create a FEMA crisis in Texas and California with the illegals, it is clear. This is what this is all about. They want credit for our safety and not us managing our own spirituality and safety with our own churches.
This is what this IRS scandal is all about, and not just about getting Obama re-elected.
I don’t think those comments by Louie Gohmert had anything to do with Holder’s new power play.
No the comments Gohmert made were not related to Holder’s announcement.
But Gohmert was speaking in the committee about voting rights.
This announcement is all about the midterm elections. Obama wants the House back, and the Justice Department is again being turned into a political weapon using the cloak of civil rights. This has become the new civil rights model. Because Democratic interests are so perfectly aligned with the civil rights establishment — in no small measure because of extreme bloc voting by American blacks — the DOJ is now an arm of the DNC.
HT PJ Media
Next to the last paragraph in the article I posted. Glad you read it.
I won’t be surprised if Texas turns blue in the next few election cycles.
“Laws? I don’t need no stinkin’ laws!” - Eric Holder
Just righting the wrongs of Whitey against the black man.
Nothing to see here folks..... move along.
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