Posted on 09/03/2013 9:56:33 AM PDT by jazusamo
PJ Media has engaged in a long-running series of articles regarding Republicans who are trying to re-impose the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was partially struck down by the US Supreme Court this summer. We reported that staff within the Republican National Committee are working to re-impose it, outside the public eye. The RNC officially and vehemently denied. But. We’ve also tracked the statements of elected Republicans including Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, and the activities of their lobbyists and staffs. Sensenbrenner is under the influence of a long-time former staffer who is currently lobbying for the far-left ACLU.
Juan Williams, Democrat columnist, is praising Sensenbrenner in a Hill column for, you guessed it, seeking to re-impose the full Voting Rights Act.
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) defied political stereotypes and several other Republicans when he announced an end-of-the-year deadline for reviving the pre-clearance provision of the VRA.
“I am committed to restoring the Voting Rights Act as an effective tool to prevent discrimination,” said Sensenbrenner to repeated cheers. He was chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when a bipartisan group approved reauthorization of the VRA in 2006.
“This is something that has to be done by the end of the year so that a revised and constitutional Voting Rights Act is in place by the 2014 elections — both the primaries and general election,” Sensenbrenner told his largely black Republican audience.
Williams praises Sensenbrenner for “defying stereotypes,” as if it’s shocking that a white Republican can support civil rights. It may be news to Williams, but Republicans were instrumental in passing the 1960s civil rights legislation. There is no stereotype there to “defy.”
Williams praises Sensenbrenner for telling a story about traveling to the south during his formative years and being appalled by the racism he saw. The south has changed a great deal since the elderly Sensenbrenner was a boy, and Democrats imposed segregation. Democrats are no longer in control across the south. Their heinous Jim Crow racist regime has been blown away.
The specific laws that Democrats like Williams want to use the Voting Rights Act to undo now are laws mandating photo ID at the voting booth — which Sensenbrenner claims to support. And, which heavy majorities of the American people support. And, which have been shown to increase minority voter turnout. Voter ID is sensible and especially critical in the border states, where vote brokering, identity theft and fraud are all too easy for even non-citizens to perpetrate.
So if voter ID isn’t Sensenbrenner’s motivation for seeking to put several southern states back under federal receivership when they make even minute changes to voting regulations and laws, then what is? Why does the Wisconsin Republican believe that the “full power” of the Voting Rights Act is still necessary in the south? He should step out and explain publicly what he intends to do and why, and to which specific states.
He should also explain publicly which part of the VRA he wants re-instated. If he wants Section 4 reinforced then he is accusing the South of ongoing racism and seeking to put it back under federal receivership — meaning, for the next three years at least, under Eric Holder’s boot. He is begging the Obama administration to continue suing states that seek election integrity through voter ID.
Sensenbrenner is not the only Republican with some explaining to do.
After his speech, he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that both Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) have publicly stated their support for fixing the VRA.
And his presence at the RNC lunch also suggests that his political crusade has the blessings of the national party and party chairman Reince Priebus. The chairman is on record as telling a reporter after the Supreme Court ruling that “voter suppression obviously has no place in our world or our society.” (emphasis added)
What a red herring. Voter ID is not about voter “suppression.” What, specifically, do Sensenbrenner, Cantor, Boehner and Priebus want imposed? What do they regard as “voter suppression”? They should lay their cards out on the table.
Remember, the RNC denied that it is working behind the scenes to get the “full power” of the VRA restored. Rep. Sensenbrenner apparently does not believe that denial.
Sensenbrenner, Cantor, Boehner and Priebus have to be replaced with conservative Republicans who don't support Obama/Holder leftist policies.
More evidence that there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the parties.
Dang, I did not know I was so dumb.
Those congressmen have to ‘educate’ me on these complex issues.
Yesterday it was McCain calling me stupid.
http://www.truethevote.org/news/summary-of-the-1982-new-jersey-consent-decree
The Republican division of the Democrat Party is working hard to make the position of the Democrat Party as the permanent Ruling Party unassailable. The Amnesty front is the most important move because that all by itself renders the Democrats untouchable but all other progressive gambits will be supported and promoted.
Just waltz down to your local elections board and re register as a democrat, and notify your local leaders what you did...maybe then they will get the message. I intend to do just that. At least the commie party has issues they stand behind.
There is no difference because there is no between. There is a certain hierarchy but there is no horizontal dseparation.
That act constituted the actual friendly takeover of the Republican Party and merger with the Democrat Party as a wholly owned and controlled division.
In my view you’re correct and they’ve made headway. I’ve little doubt Boehner will end up supporting the Senate amnesty bill in some form.
Sensenbrenner is senile, and I say that as a resident of his district of more than 25 years. After re-districting, I now have Petri who is even worse.
Sensenbrenner unexplicably backing archaic voting rights act.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Thanks, he must be, I think he used to be regarded as conservative.
I hope patriots are aware that the only reason that the federal government has the power to make laws to protect certain voting rights is because the states amended the Constitution to grant Congress such powers.
The voting rights amendments are the 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th Amendments. These amendments expressly grant Congress the power to make laws to protect voting rights on the basis of race, sex, tax issues and minimum voting age respectively. Any federal voting laws or regulations not reasonably based on these criteria are unconstitutional imo.
For example, the states have never amended the Constitution to protect voters by not requiring voters to show a valid photo ID in order to vote. So a federal law that prohibits the states from requiring voters to present such an ID in order to vote is unconstitutional imo.
If voters want such a constitutional protection then they can work with their local, state and federal lawmakers to amend the Constitution to make not having to show an ID in order to vote a right.
Good info...That sounds like it’s the reason Obama’s lapdog Holder is going after voter ID laws in states using the excuse voter ID discriminates against minorities which is a completely bogus argument.
Since biased, out-dated legislation is suddenly all the rage, why not bring back the Fugitive Slave Act?
If I’m not mistaken, Boehner’s term as Speaker of the House terminates after the off-year election. That will be 2014. NOW’S the time to start electing CONSERVATIVE Republicans to the House of Reps.
Amen to that!
>>>Since biased, out-dated legislation is suddenly all the rage, why not bring back the Fugitive Slave Act?>>>
You’ve summed it up succinctly.
How can you reinstate what the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional? I am not saying the Court is always right, but until they reverse a decision it remains the law of the land.
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