So what exactly does this mean for the Voter ID crowd- PB/TK
BREAKING. Department Of Justice To Drop Opposition To Texas Voter ID Law – by streiff February 27, 2017
I don’t care what kind of a Trump hater you are, this is good news.
“BREAKING NEWS! Sessions’ DOJ is abandoning its 6-year old claims that TX Photo ID law was enacted w/discriminatory intent. We will fight on!”
The whole idea behind the lawsuit is ridiculous and is based on the unsupported and unsupportable notion that requiring proof of identity to vote is racially discriminatory because, presumably, select minority populations (read this as “not Asian”) are just too dumb to figure out how to comply with the law. If a Republican group ever made that claim the howls of racism would be so loud your ears would be damaged. Talking Points Memo has the whining:
“For the last six years, the Justice Department has sided with the citizens and civil rights groups fighting Texas’ voter ID law, which a federal judge at one point found to be intentionally discriminatory against black and Latino voters. But its position changed Monday when the department decided to drop its claim that Republican state lawmakers enacted the law to make it harder for minorities to vote.
“This signals to voters that they will not be protected under this administration,” said Danielle Lang, the deputy director of voting rights at the Campaign Legal Center, which is challenging Texas’ law in court……”
Continue to redstate.com article: http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/02/27/breaking.-department-justice-drop-opposition-texas-voter-id-law/
