More on How to Beat Eric Holder: Georgia Shows the Way
South Carolina went to Eric Holder for approval of the Voter ID law. Today Holder objected and blocked the law.
Georgia went to federal court, as I and others have urged for months, to get their voting lines approved. For good measure, Georgia challenged the constitutionality of Section 5. Today DOJ caved and agreed to Georgia’s submission. From the AJC:
Republicans, who pushed through the new maps over Democratic objections during a special August legislative session, had simultaneously submitted its plan to the Justice Department for preclearance and sued the DOJ in federal court. Had the Justice Department rejected its maps, the state would have moved forward with its lawsuit.
Republicans had said publicly that they saw the court case as an avenue toward a declaration that the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional. With the DOJ’s approval of its redistricting plan, however, that now seems moot.
Now is the time for Texas and South Carolina to go immediately to federal court for approval of Voter ID, and perhaps do what Georgia did to get DOJ modify their position – challenge Section 5 as unconstitutional. Governor Haley tonight says:
“It is outrageous, and we plan to look at every possible option to get this terrible, clearly political decision overturned so we can protect the integrity of our electoral process and our 10th Amendment rights,” she said in a statement.
Every possible option? Then follow Georgia’s lead.
Hopefully Gov. Haley’s reference to “10th Amendment rights” is a signal of a Section 5 challenge.
not a criticism:
can we trust that you (JCA) have tried to communicate these thoughts more directly to justice-type persons in those state governments?
thanks for your efforts and columns. eye-opening, and anger-generating. disgust-type anger.
You can be assured that officals in these states have heard these arguments. Notice that Arizona filed a lawsuit to strike down Section 5. Notice that Georgia has the system down. They push back hard anytime they have a subsmission. Some states do it right.
yes, we’re doing better in georgia. why, we even get to vote on selling alcohol on sunday now.
actually, getting the state government in hand, it seems, but big city governments are still working the old corruption/cronyism/socialism hard. cf Atlanta Public Schools – left lots of children behind – filled in their standardized tests for them…
I think you are going to need a new Hogarth to depict the scale of fraud deployed to accomplish Obama’s re-election next year. At least, though, in his “Election” series, the dead body still had to be carried to the polling booth and presented as supposedly slightly animated, to be permitted to cast a vote. In some US states, it seems, voters can continue to vote once deceased, without even attending the polling station. To tolerate (to say the least) such electoral malpractice is a characteristic of the left both sides of the Atlantic (and in Australia). We saw a shameless attempt to boost the labour vote, for instance by relaxing the rules on postal votes to an absurd extent.
Good luck with tackling the outbreak of gerrymandering on your side and a Happy Christmas to both writers and readers at Pjmedia.
Tom Perez has been getting a lot of face time on television lately. Isn’t he one of the liberal wild bunch at DOJ?