Posted on 06/12/2021 5:11:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department will scrutinize a wave of new laws in Republican-controlled states that tighten voting rules, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday, vowing to take action on any violations of federal law.
He announced plans to double staffing within the department’s civil rights division and said the department would send guidance to states about election-related activity, including mail voting and post-election audits. He also pledged to investigate and prosecute those who would threaten election workers, noting a rise in such cases.
“There are many things open to debate in America, but the right of all eligible citizens to vote is not one of them,” Garland said in his first direct response to the restrictive voting laws being passed in more than a dozen states where Republicans control the legislature and governor’s office.
His message was clear: The department doesn’t plan to stay on the sidelines of the voting battles that have erupted in statehouses across the country. Along with reviewing new state laws, Garland said the department also will examine existing ones for their potential to discriminate against minority voters.
He also reiterated the administration’s support for two proposals pushed by congressional Democrats that would create minimum federal standards for voting and would restore the ability of his agency to review changes to state election laws in places with a history of racial discrimination.
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Garland is a Nazgul.
Here it comes. Anyone who didn’t see this coming probably didn’t think it was possible the DEMs could still the 2020 election.
*steal
Not the Witch King of Angmar, but one of the nine...
The old concept that states were in charge of their own voting practices is “so 2020”.
Grest! Start with the New England states. Bigoted bastards.
I honestly think they’re trying to cause domestic terrorism.
i think this is what we have courts for.
Whatever bad can be said about Beijing Mitch, the one good thing he did was keep this Bolshevik off the Supreme Court.
Review Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the US Constitution.
Here’s a proposal: Make the requirements for voting identical to the requirements for exercising a different Constitutional right, namely, purchasing a gun. ID, police permission, answer questions under penalty of perjury, etc. Surely if it’s “just common sense” in one case, it can’t possibly be “restrictive” in another.
Remember when Obama and the corrupt MSM swore up and down that Garland was a moderate pick for the SC?
Butt out democrat fake gumshoes.
Run-up to the 2nd Civil War continues apace.
Anyone notice the difference between Rat attorney generals and Republican ones?
Garland comes out full guns blazing like he’s in charge of the Gestapo. Meanwhile Sessions and Barr use milquetoast Marquess of Queensberry Rules against the enemy of the USA.
Yes, one of the Nine.
Thinking about it, I’d say it’s Obama wearing the Witch King’s crown, but he might also be just a flunky like Garland.
So many layers of deception behind the curtain, so many centers of Power
They all serve the Dark Lord and He is Legion.
I have grown old and likely won’t live long enough to see America and the World washed clean of this filth.
“””“There are many things open to debate in America, but the right of all eligible citizens to vote is not one of them,” Garland said”””
This is something I can agree with Garland. All eligible citizens should be required to show documents that in fact they are eligible citizens. How else do we know?
You won’t have to see the low point either, and you have memories of probably the high point.
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