How The Voting Rights Act Lets Biden’s DOJ Insist Georgia’s Photo ID Requirement Is Racist

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 How The Voting Rights Act Lets Biden’s DOJ Insist Georgia’s Photo ID Requirement Is Racist

For each of the challenged provisions, DOJ's complaint alleges black voters are burdened more than white voters in Georgia's new voting law.

By Margot Cleveland
June 28, 2021

On Friday, the Biden administration filed suit against Georgia, challenging numerous aspects of the state’s Election Integrity Act of 2021. While many of the allegations contained in the nearly 50-page complaint struck a surreal chord, assessing the merits (or lack thereof) of the lawsuit requires an understanding of the Voting Rights Act. Here’s your lawsplainer.

Last week, the Biden administration, through the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, filed a one-count complaint against the state of Georgia, the Georgia State Election Board, and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, pursuant to Sections 2 and 12(d) of the Voting Rights Act.

The latter provision, Section 12(d), authorizes the attorney general of the United States to file a civil lawsuit against states and local election officials for alleged violations of the substantive provisions of the Voting Rights Act, such as Section 2. Further, under the Voting Rights Act, the federal government may seek injunctive relief to block voting laws from taking effect.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act currently prohibits any “standard, practice, or procedure” that “results in a denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.” The “results in” language here proves key, because when Congress first passed the law in 1965, Section 2 prohibited only a “standard, practice, or procedure” “to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.”

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To prevail on a Section 2 claim, then, the Department of Justice need not establish a state such as Georgia intended to deny or abridge the right to vote based on race or color. Rather, Section 2(b) provides that a violation “is established if, based on the totality of circumstances, it is shown that the political processes . . . are not equally open to participation” because members of a particular race or color “have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.”

So essentially, the Biden coup is arguing that black people, by the nature of their skin color, are too stupid or incompetent to acquire a FREE ID CARD from the State.

[GtHawk]

So essentially, the Biden coup is arguing that black people, by the nature of their skin color, are too stupid or incompetent to acquire a FREE ID CARD from the State.

That should be shouted out at every townhall, debate or press conference. Also the question of how these, by democrat definition, incapable children, open bank accounts, drive cars, get social security and medical care without picture ID's.

[Free Vulcan]

There's actually an opportunity here, because the VRA puts a number of southern states on a lower footing than the rest in terms of voting rules, based on the Slavery and Jim Crow eras, now long gone.

With states like Delaware even more restrictive, Georgia can argue that it is not being treated fairy and equally by the VRA, and could entice the court to nullify it as outdated and unequally applied.

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With states like Delaware even more restrictive, Georgia can argue that it is not being treated fairy and equally by the VRA, and could entice the court to nullify it as outdated and unequally applied.

Democrats have been opposing equal protection since 1836.

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The very fact that these race-mongers say it is racist is proof they are the actual racists.