yeah... that tooo!!!
Posted on 03/13/2012 10:56:17 AM PDT by jazusamo
For Attorney General Eric Holder, life must present a hellish vista of pervasive racist practices.
Wherever he goes, people are required to show identification. When cashing a check. When signing up for a library card. When boarding a plane. When entering certain office buildings. When checking into hotels. When (in the case of the youthful-looking) buying a beer or cigarettes, or entering a bar. The tyranny of the photo ID is so all-encompassing that people can’t enter Holder’s own Justice Department without showing one.
Holder is outraged that in a nation where requests for photo ID are ubiquitous, more and more states are requiring that people show them when they vote. In a speech last year, Holder characterized these voter-ID laws as an assault on the voting rights that Congressman John Lewis – the hero of Edmund Pettus Bridge – fought for in the mid-1960s. Back then, blacks in the South had to fear for their safety if they showed up at the courthouse to try to register to vote. Now, states are merely asking everyone, regardless of race, to show identification that is readily available to all, regardless of race.
That Holder can equate the fight against voter ID to the struggles of the 1960s demonstrates a moral obtuseness insulting to the memory of the civil-rights pioneers. His Justice Department is now blocking a new voter-ID law in Texas, after doing the same to a South Carolina law. It argues that the Texas statute will disproportionally affect poor Latinos and therefore violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Why would the yokels in Texas do something so outrageous as ask that people prove who they are at polling places? It is obviously a basic check against fraud. Requiring an ID to vote was one of the proposals in 2005 of the commission on federal election reform, chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker, neither of whom had previously been noted for his hostility to minorities or the poor.
Analyzing Texas data, the Justice Department contends that anywhere from 6 percent to 10 percent of Hispanic registered voters don’t have ID. It piles up a parade of horribles – no cars, great distances, inconvenient hours – for why such potential voters can’t get to an office to acquire one, even though the state’s Department of Public Safety will issue election identification certificates for free.
The experience of other states with voter-ID laws suggests that minorities are not the hapless victims that Holder’s Justice Department portrays them as. Hans von Spakovsky of The Heritage Foundation points out that black turnout increased in Georgia in 2008, the first election under a voter-ID law, more than it did in Mississippi, which didn’t have such a law. A study by the University of Delaware and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln concluded that “concerns about voter-identification laws affecting turnout are much ado about nothing.”
Before his next speech, Holder should bone up on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in 2008 upholding Indiana’s voter-ID law. The liberal Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion. The court held that “there is no question about the legitimacy or importance of the State’s interest in counting only the votes of eligible voters,” and “we cannot conclude that the statute imposes ’excessively burdensome requirements’ on any class of voters.” The decision cited the finding of a district judge that plaintiffs had “not introduced evidence of a single, individual Indiana resident who will be unable to vote as a result of the law.” Presumably, if the Indiana law had represented the recrudescence of Jim Crow, the nation’s highest court would have noticed.
Not that any of this matters to Holder. Just as the administration is manufacturing a “war on women,” he wants to manufacture a “war on voting rights.” It is the same MO of fevered rhetoric and distortions in the service of the same end of motivating key voting blocs. Holder’s tenure as the government’s top lawyer is an ongoing disgrace.
“I would hope he can’t issue blanket pardons to his whole cabinet and appointees for whatever they “may” have done illegally.”
I think he can, and I think he will.
You might be right. I hope not but with this crew you never know.
Holder should bone up on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in 2008 upholding Indiana’s voter-ID law
Right there in the article, the argument is over. Or so it should be. When is Perry just going to email with that decision over to Holder and the rest of the criminals at the DOJ and flip them the bird?
I strongly suspect Holder, his thugs and his boss know this won’t hold up in court but they can string out the suits until after the election and that’s probably all they care about.
Marxist are running the government. The only question that remains is will the people overthrow the coup or will they complete it.
“.......they can string out the suits until after the election and that’s probably all they care about.”
That’s EXACTLY what they are doing. You are so right on the mark.
Mr. Holder, doesn't requiring an ID to get married cause a suppression of marriage in the minority communities?
Mr. Holder, doesn't requiring an ID to purchase alcohol in a restaurant constitute racial harrassment? Why should minorities be refused service in restaurants?
Mr. Holder, doesn't requiring an ID to open a bank account discourage minorities from regularizing their economic life and hold them back, since many of them are not able to get a checking account, a debit card, a credit card or a loan?
Mr. Holder, Doesn't requiring an ID to get a passport have a suppressing effect on minorities who would like to travel for business or study or vacation purposes?
Mr. Holder, do you you realize that the Democratic National Committee requires a photo ID of delegates in order to be seated or vote at the quadrennial Convention?
Mr. Holder, what do you intend to do about the practice of unions suppressing minority influence in union elections by denying the vote to those who do not have a picture ID vote?
Eric Holder is SUCH a fraud.....but then, so is his boss.
Right there in the article, the argument is over. Or so it should be. When is Perry just going to email with that decision over to Holder and the rest of the criminals at the DOJ and flip them the bird?
Actually, I hope the Democrats keep beating this dead dog. When they do stupid things DON'T STOP THEM!!
In Chicago, all you need is a Library card. With anybody's name on it.
I am speaking from my own personal experience.
My daughter was registered in Des Plaines and going to school in Chicago. On election day she told me she had voted. I told her she should have stopped by the house, since she was in the suburbs and I wasn't working that day. She replied, "no, Dad, I voted down here in the city."
For people applying for, or renewing a drivers license. Http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/nvra/dmv.ht
http://www.elections.il.gov/Downloads/ElectionInformation/PDF/registervote.pdf
bttt
More in your face fraud and corruption.
yeah... that tooo!!!
So apparently as long as you showed ID and registered to vote before dying, after you're dead you stay on the voting rolls forever and anyone can vote as the dead person. After all, you're legally registered to vote. /sarc
And that is exactly the reason why the commie RAT bastard demoRAT pigs & liberals & judges & unions, are so insanely opposed to photo id laws. We need a war in the country to throw all these pigs out of office & out of the judicial system!
The Mexican Drug Cartels are rather fond of him too. He keeps them supplied with guns and “mules”.
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