After running into this article — How Donald Trump could usher in an era of Jim Crow 2.0 — it seemed pretty clear now that there was nothing hyperbolic about the claim.
It begins with this:
By Terrell Jermaine Starr
Black America will survive President Donald Trump.
But his presidency, even if he is only elected to one term, will leave Trump with sweeping federal authority and influence to reverse more than 50 years of Civil Rights legislation and ratchet up anti-black sentiments among the legions of voters who buoyed his lopsided electoral vote tally. Exit polling shows that Trump ran away with 63% of white males and 52% of white women.
That report came out November 11, 2016.
Since that time here is what Trump’s pick for the U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has on his agenda.
This report out today:
By Katie McDonough Febraury 27, 2017
In a move that voting rights advocates have predicted for months, the Department of Justice on Monday reversed course on a major voting rights case in Texas.
The issue at stake is a 2011 law that requires voters to show identification from a narrow list of acceptable documents: a state driver’s license or state ID card, a US passport, a military ID, a citizenship certificate with a photo, a concealed handgun license, or something called a Texas Election Identification Certificate
Also as expected, Texas governor Greg Abbott doubles down on the same lie republican politicians all over the country repeat:
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, say it is necessary to prevent voter fraud, a problem that simply does not exist in the United States. Opponents of the law, including the NAACP, ACLU, and local civil and voting rights organizations, have argued, successfully, that the law discriminates against voters of color, who are less likely to have one of the acceptable forms of ID
Courts have already ruled on this farcical line of bullshit coming from republicans:
The Republican-backed law has been through several rounds of legal challenges, most recently a federal court decision that found it had a discriminatory effect against black and Latino voters and violated the Voting Rights Act.
With “surgical precision”:
Although the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision, they constitute inapt remedies for the problems assertedly justifying them and, in fact, impose cures for problems that do not exist. Thus the asserted justifications cannot and do not conceal the state’s true motivation.
From another source out today; Talking points memo, is this report:
By Alice Ollstein Published February 27, 2017
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.
The reversal, on the eve of a key hearing in the case, is a clear sign of the DOJ's direction under Attorney General Jeff Sessions—a longtime advocate of voter ID laws and other voting restrictions.
The department signaled its intentions last week when it joined with the state of Texas to ask the court to hold off on judging the constitutionality of the law until Republican lawmakers can modify it. The court rejected this request.
The fight is on:
Lang told TPM that the DOJ reached out Monday morning to her and the other voting rights groups fighting the law to notify them of their new position.
On Tuesday, DOJ lawyers will appear before U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos and inform her that the federal government is dismissing its claim that the voter ID law was crafted with a discriminatory intent.
“There have been six years of litigation and no change in the facts,”
Lang told TPM.
“We have already had a nine-day trial and presented thousands of pages of documents demonstrating that the picking and choosing of what IDs count was entirely discriminatory and would fall more harshly on minority voters. So for the DOJ to come in and drop those claims just because of a change of administration is outrageous.”
Again, also no surprise:
The Department of Justice declined to comment to TPM on the record about the change in position.
So the top cop in the land, United States Attorney General, headed by a segregationist is “dismissing its claim that the voter ID law was crafted with a discriminatory intent”
Tuesday, Feb 28, 2017 · 12:59:34 AM +00:00 · Eric Nelson
Just in the rare case that a republican voter happens to stumble across this post thinking that they are immune to having their voice silenced and their access to the ballot box restricted by the corporate owned politicians they vote for.
They should read this:
And if that is happening in Arizona and successful, you can bet that it will happen wherever republican politicians hold office.
Here is an example out of Benton Texas:
republican politicians don’t really care what their everyday voters want. And if the republican voter gets in the way of the so-called “consituents”, the big money $ donor “special interests” ..and that includes foreign interests (?).. they’ll get sidelined just like everybody else