Posted on 07/25/2013 9:18:14 AM PDT by Nachum
The Attorney General’s approach to the enforcement of law at least has the virtue of novelty. Usually, the Department of Justice abides by Supreme Court rulings on matters of law, especially when it strikes down statutes that — at least in theory — prevent the government from enforcing them. If the Obama administration can ignore existing statutory law on the employer mandate for ObamaCare, though, perhaps the DoJ can enforce statutory laws that no longer exist.
I wonder if the federal courts will be willing to go along with that:
The Justice Department is preparing to take fresh legal action in a string of voting rights cases across the nation, U.S. officials said, part of a new attempt to blunt the impact of a Supreme Court ruling that the Obama administration has warned will imperil minority representation.
The decision to challenge state officials marks an aggressive effort to continue policing voting rights issues and follows a ruling by the court last month that invalidated a critical part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Justices threw out a part of the act that required certain states with a history of discrimination to be granted Justice Department or court approval before making voting law changes.
In the coming weeks, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is expected to announce that the Justice Department is using other sections of the Voting Rights Act to bring lawsuits or take other legal action to prevent states from implementing certain laws, including requirements to present certain kinds of identification in order to vote. The department is also expected to try to force certain states to get approval, or “pre-clearance,” before they can change their election laws.
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Texas will enjoy telling Holder to go to hell.
Holder is completely out of line on this.
This is a wholesale and malicious attack on a sovereign state of the United States.
I can’t believe the illicit and patently biased premise of this kind of act.
Voter Fraud will be enforced by the dictatorship.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Videos for your file
Commentary from MSNBC video below
2:01 Minutes
Unhappy with SCOTUS decision on Voting Rights Act Eric Holder begins assault on Texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXcqvC9qE6E
The commentator in the video says he was in the Judiciary hearings today with Gohmert.
3:53 Minutes
Eric Holder, DOJ Seeking To Reinstate Authority Over Texas Voting Law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs3AVHjMYSk
3: 32 minutes
Louie Gohmert Likens Minorities to Prairie Chickens and ‘Various Lizards’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kme2DwQBFBA
Obama, Jarrett and Holder need intense voter fraud to take place, no matter what.
Where there is no "Law of the Land"
There is only CHAOS !
Do we call this illegal , or "over reach " ?
and do we expect anything else, but illegality
from this administration ?
Ignore Holder.
I see nothing in the future to stop any of these gross injustices against states. Where are the voices of what is right? Rep. Gohmert can do little by himself.
Greg Abbot will tell holder to pound sand.
Holder knows that SCOTUS will not pre-emptively slap him down. Texas would have to file suit over whatever he does, and Obama will likely be long gone by the time that makes it to SCOTUS. Which may even have a liberal majority by then.
Cunningly Machiavellian if nothing else.
This is a wholesale and malicious attack on a sovereign state of the United States...
Yes, but Texas is a red state, so it’s probably 50/50 that he gets away with it in Federal Courts.
To paraphrase Pvt. Hudson from the movie Aliens, “I’m from Texas, how do I get out of this chicken sh*t outfit.”
If the rats can turn TX in 2016, this experiment in self-government will be over.
Just accept EBT’s and Welfare Check stubs as ID....then, blacks will have no problem having “proper ID” at the Polls.
Texas will enjoy telling Holder to go to hell.
TX should issue a warrant for his arrest.
Yep. Thank God for Abbott, but he’d better watch what he eats.
They control Justice Department funding, but of course, Congress has evidently nothing to say about this either.
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