Posted on 03/07/2024 2:40:15 PM PST by packagingguy
Democrats want to strip states and local jurisdictions of their control over elections and hand power to President Joe Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice and its left-wing allies to override election integrity laws.
Sens. Raphael Warnock, Dick Durbin, and Chuck Schumer reintroduced HR 14, dubbed the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, on March 1, more than two years after it failed to make headway in the Senate after being passed by the House in 2021.
If the bill were to pass, it would enable the Department of Justice to “intervene anywhere in the country to overrule local or state authorities whenever the left alleges that changes in the laws could theoretically disadvantage minority voters,” as Jonathan Tobin explained in these pages in 2022...
Specifically, passing a voter ID law would “automatically trigger preclearance requirements,” subjecting a jurisdiction to DOJ scrutiny.
The Biden DOJ has made no secret of its views on voter ID. Attorney General Merrick Garland boasted earlier this week of the department’s efforts to challenge “voter ID requirements,” and the DOJ sued Arizona for requiring people prove their citizenship in order to vote by mail or in presidential elections.
Often, the DOJ works with left-wing groups in its efforts against voter ID laws. The department was scolded in 2012 after worked alongside the ACLU to object to a South Carolina voter ID law, as von Spakovsky pointed out.
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This doesn't seem how you amend the Constitution.
Let’s see...
We are a Representative Republic, and by the Constitution, so are the states. People vote for and elect state legislators. Legislators vote for and pass election laws, including voter ID. SCOTUS upholds voter ID laws. The unelected agents of the DoJ, including the AG, try to interfere with and cancel laws passed by the state legislatures.
Who’s the biggest threat to our democracy (representative republic)?
Cons never give up the con.
This is how democracy works. Majority rule
The next the rats have Potus and both houses this and others like it will sail through. There will not be Manchin and Senema to stop it. The US becomes CA within a year. They will start by packing the court
We are NOT a democracy, and this is a direct assault on the Constitution.
They’re like rust. They never sleep
Didn’t we fight a Revolutionary War to prevent chit like this?
The DemWit Demonrats have advanced from unconstitutional to anti-constitutional. All to “save our democracy.”
But it’s nice they’d name the law after an absolutely infamous and recidivist election denier
“Who’s the biggest threat to our democracy (representative republic)?”
Answer: Democrats, Merrick Garland and the DOJ
“A Law repugnant to the Constitution is void.”
With these words written by Chief Justice Marshall, the Supreme Court for the first time declared unconstitutional a law passed by Congress and signed by the President.
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
A centralized voting system will allow them to “change the results of an election” with the press of button.
I am sure that has nothing to do with the bill, though.
Precisely.
They want these illegal aliens on the voting rolls as soon as possible.
DOJ = America’s KGB
Democrats’ Bill Would Give The DOJ Veto Power Over State And Local Election Laws
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i would expect nothing less from the
Rrr-Democracy Pirate Party.
our ship of state has been boarded, our republic has been hijacked and a mobocracy called the Rrr-Democracy Pirate Party has been instaleed by hook and crook.
maritime law once had a yard arm remedy for that sort of thing
bfl
If they ever get the trifecta again, we’re done as a country. First thing they will do is get rid of the filibuster and then it’s off to the races. Yes some think we’re done already. You haven’t seen anything yet.
Dude, that horse left the barn over a century ago.
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