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Holder: Justice Department Will ‘Vigorously Use’ Voting Rights Act Against States
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cnsnews.com — (CNSNews.com) – Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee Thursday that the Justice Department will “vigorously use” anti-Jim Crow provisions in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent some southern states from purging ineligible voters from their rolls and enacting voter-I.D. laws.

"It is the position of this Department of Justice and certainly this Attorney General that we will vigorously defend and vigorously use Section 5. The need for it is still there."

Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires several southern states and counties in states such as California and Florida to get federal “pre-clearance” before they change any voting eligibility laws or voting requirements or procedures.

Originally, the provision was designed to combat the legacy of racist Jim Crow laws passed in some states to prevent black people from voting.

Although Holder stressed the "need" to “vigorously use” Section 5, he did not say which states he thinks are pursuing racist policies that require Justice Department interference.

The Justice Department recently cited Section 5 in a letter to the state of Florida ordering it to stop an ongoing effort to purge ineligible voters from its rolls, focusing on illegal immigrants in particular. Five Florida counties are required to gain pre-clearance from Justice under Section 5.

Justice also blocked a South Carolina voter-I.D. law in December 2011, saying it violated Section 5’s prohibition on racially discriminatory voting laws. In March 2012, the department also blocked a Texas voter-I.D. law again saying that the requirement that people show a photo-I.D. to vote was racial discrimination.

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Why are Holder and the Obama administration against voter ID laws when they require photo ID's to attend democRAT gatherings and Michelle Obama book signings.
Strictly to protect the liberal democRAT fraudulent vote industry.
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Liberals cannot win in the arena of ideas and must resort to cheating in order to have a chance to win elections.
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Eric Holder is a blatant racist.
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All these choices and more. democRAT politicians are very transparent.
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lastbaldeagle
Posted 375 days ago
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Josef Göbbels had a philosophy too....“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
lightdude
Posted 375 days ago
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@lastbaldeagle The only ones who believe a lie if it's told over and over are the weak minded leftests liberals. It's comical to watch what BS lies that come out of the dumb craps base. Maybe Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse are real? Can't wait to hear that one and watch the idiots believe it.
lastbaldeagle
Posted 374 days ago
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Liberals don't have the market cornered on naiveté, but they aren't far off.

If liberals were twice as smart as they believe themselves to be they would constitute a whole wit.
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