Hopefully this turns out better than the last time someone said that.
Posted on 08/22/2013 11:25:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Department of Justice has served up a Texas sized lawsuit over the Lone Star State's voter identification law, something Attorney General Eric Holder has been warning about since it was signed into law in May 2011.
The Justice Department said Thursday that it will file a new lawsuit against Texas to try to block the state's voter ID law.Supreme Court be damned. The issuing of the lawsuit is bold considering the Supreme Court just struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act, resulting in states like Texas being able to make voting decisions at a local level.
“Today’s action marks another step forward in the Justice Department’s continuing effort to protect the voting rights of all eligible Americans,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement accompanying the announcement of the lawsuit.
"We will not allow the Supreme Court’s recent decision to be interpreted as open season for states to pursue measures that suppress voting rights."
The court's 5-4 ruling in the case from Alabama frees states and municipalities with a history of racial discrimination from having to clear changes in voting procedures with the federal government. That restriction has applied to nine states and parts of six others, mostly in the South.
Three weeks ago, voter integrity group True the Vote issued a statement knowing DOJ was preparing to issue a lawsuit.
“We will not sit idly by and allow the most politically charged Department of Justice in US history to set aside the US constitution and attempt to bully the people of Texas", True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht said. "We will meet Attorney General Holder in court and we will do whatever we need to do to advance the cause of voters’ rights for all Americans.”
“General Holder’s announcement today demonstrates just how radical the DOJ has become. The same department that criminalizes journalism and fails to prosecute IRS agents who violate the rights of American taxpayers is promising to sue states with taxpayer dollars to block laws passed by elected legislators such as voter ID and citizenship verification.I'll leave you with Former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis, who has since switched to being a Republican, on how voter i.d. laws do not disenfranchise minority voters as Holder claims.
“Every American voter deserves to have his or her vote counted - and not diluted by fraud or error. The DOJ just put itself between the voters of Texas and their guaranteed constitutional and civil rights.
“True the Vote has watched as Attorney General Eric Holder has repeatedly disregarded the rule of law,” Engelbrecht continued. "We understand that this Department of Justice does not believe that protection of voters’ rights should be colorblind.
“Texas will stand its ground in San Antonio – that’s a promise.”
Fmr. Democratic Rep. Davis: Voter ID Laws DO NOT Disenfranchise Minorities
Actually, no. Not SCOTUS be damned. This is the provision SCOTUS left intact. So if anyone should be damned, it is SCOTUS for not declaring the entire thing unconstitutional. There is no Constitutional violation here and that is SCOTUS’ fault.
Hopefully this turns out better than the last time someone said that.
Translation: Rats love voter fraud and aren’t about to give it up easily.
Damn hypocrites. They don’t want it because they’ll get more votes without it. You can bet that if there were a sudden swing in Republican votes getting around voter fraud, you’d have to have a passport, microchip, driver’s license, eye scan, finger prints, secret password encrypted, that’s enough.
Democrats have a civil right to steal elections.
Needed to buy guns, liquor, etc etc....
But it is racist to ask for one for voting purposes...
Because our voters are too stupid to get IDs - The Democrat Party
DOJ is trying to delay the state’s voter ID law by bogging it down in court ,so it’s out of the 2014 elections
There. Fixed it for you.
"We will not allow the Supreme Court’s recent decision to be interpreted as open season for states to pursue measures that suppress voting rights."
It's not your decisions whether to "allow" or not! Damn it! Enforce the laws!!! That's WHAT YOU'RE THERE FOR!!!
DOJ determines what interpretation of a decision is? SCOTUS does that. Slap DOJ with an injunction.
This is what we get for having a black President.
We is in charge now.
How many times did I hear that when working under black supervisors.
Yeah, but it went 5 to 4 which means the conservatives voted against the DOJ and Kennedy voted with the liberals, and I am sure you did not expect Sotomayor, Breyer, Kagan and Bader-Ginsburg to vote with the right.
Of course they do. It’s the only way they win elections
It’s the liberal logic
Every time an illegal alien votes or a dead person votes or a person votes multiple times, it diminishes the voting rights of every person who is legitimately eligible to vote.
If the DOJ were interested in protecting the rights of ELIGIBLE voters, they would take every step necessary to ensure that everyone who actually voted was ELIGIBLE. Instead they are ensuring that ineligible voters will have no problems illegally voting.
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