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Republican Rep. Sensenbrenner: Re-Impose the ‘Full Power’ of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
PJ Media ^ | September 3, 2013 | Bryan Preston

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boehner; cantor; priebus; rinos; senselessbrenner; sensenbrenner; voterid; votingrightsact
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To: reformedliberal

Furthermore, we’d be in a much stronger position militarily in the ME.

I say the H*** with the oil countries in the ME. We have more than enough oil already located and ready to be drilled that would last us for more than 100 years. And there’s more than that waiting to be discovered. We should be exporting oil to the rest of the world. Same with coal.

I agree with you on the hypocrites, fools and liars. Sensenbrenner has skated on his “conservative” credentials far too long.


41 posted on 09/03/2013 2:58:13 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: dennisw

Don’t worry, they’re going to be. I will play my part. I absolutely don’t give a good sh*t anymore. Let them get their votes from the left’s pet constituencies.


42 posted on 09/03/2013 2:59:07 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: mrsmel

Amen to that...The VRA is outdated and has been for many years, it’s been a tool for both political parties and should die a quick death.


43 posted on 09/03/2013 2:59:40 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: onyx

Sensebrenner has been disappointing lately. Too much time in the DC swamp has muddled his brain.


44 posted on 09/03/2013 3:03:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: reformedliberal

I have to add that the policy of “use up everybody else’s oil first” was probably formed when people believed in the concept of “peak oil”. Recent discoveries, improved geological mapping, and new methods of recovery have long since put that myth to bed. It is the policies of DC that are keeping the price of gas so high. No new refineries and no leases granted have curtailed production. Plus the stalling on the Canadian pipeline.

High energy costs affect every single person in the US and every business in the US with higher prices for gasoline, food, plastics, electricity, and fewer jobs, etc.


45 posted on 09/03/2013 3:07:14 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

We agree.

However, I doubt the “keep our oil in the ground for 20 years” had a thing to do with *peak oil*. It has to do with who benefits from any given policy.

Our government is owned by big money interests. They donate to both *sides*. They all sit on the same BODs. They keep us distracted with parties and elections and whatever else they can keep in the media spotlight to distract us from the political and economic realities.

When the empowered enemies of the USA strike on American soil, no one from either party will care, as long as they, themselves are either protected or perceive a personal benefit. And they really don’t give a rip about each other, either. No matter what they prate on about, they each are out for themselves, alone.

No amount of logic or truth or reality will change them. When, God forbid, some SHTF, they will be fighting among themselves over the remnants, setting up their own fiefdoms, vying to become warlords.

I am just so disgusted with it all that after a while, words just don’t convey the depth of my revulsion.


46 posted on 09/03/2013 4:16:28 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: reformedliberal

Agreed. But it allows the arrogant ruling class to strike fear into the hearts of common men. Common men think that oil is being epleted. They don’t understand that it is being processed by the earth every day. That is the fault of our schools.

My husband was an engineer in oil related businesses for more than 20 years, inventing and building machinery used in off shore oil drilling in the North Sea. He says that when you drill a well, first rich peat comes up from the bottom of the hole, then gas, and finally oil. The peat is gradully being reduced to oil. It is a process that has been ongoing for millions of years. We are NOT depleting it.

Add to that the fact that processes have been developed to extract oil from shale (that was only a dream 30 years ago) and the ocean floor has been mapped with a sonar-like technology to show the locations of the deposits. No longer are drillers punching holes just any place. They already know where the oil is.

My husband says that the problem with Congress is that most of them have never had a college level science course. They are all lawyers.


47 posted on 09/03/2013 4:31:15 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: jazusamo

for later


48 posted on 09/03/2013 9:35:54 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: jazusamo; onyx; dennisw; All; abigail2; Amalie; American Quilter; arthurus; awelliott; Bahbah; ...

“We should all be calling and emailing our reps and telling them we don’t want Section 4 of the Voting Rights act that was shot down by SCOTUS to be rewritten by Congress”

No we should be calling for a national strike, and we should not return to work until Obamacare is repealed, spending cuts in place, an immigration reform dead.......


49 posted on 09/04/2013 2:24:34 AM PDT by stockpirate (American taxpayer's are: New World Order slaves for the collective.)
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