Holder’s Voter ID Fraud

WSJ:

The Obama Administration’s re-election mobilization continues: Witness Eric Holder’s attempt to play the race card and perhaps twist the law in a campaign against voter identification laws.

In the Attorney General’s telling, the movement in the states to require voters to show some ID is a revival of minority disenfranchisement a la Jim Crow. A growing number of minorities, he said in a speech last week, are now worried about “the same disparities, divisions and problems” that beset the country in 1965 and “many Americans, for the first time in their lives . . . now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up” to the promise of democracy for all.

If you haven’t heard about this national crisis, perhaps that’s because you don’t travel in Mr. Holder’s political circles. He is merely repeating the howls of groups like the NAACP and the George Soros-funded Brennan Center, which claim without evidence that voter ID laws hurt minorities.

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Thirty states now require some form of ID at the polls, and one goal of Mr. Holder’s attack is to intimidate other states that want to toughen their laws. He’s probably also signaling that Justice will strike down the Texas and South Carolina statutes. This would please the Democratic Party’s left while not-so-subtly inventing a threat of Republican racism to drive minority turnout in 2012. Mr. Holder’s voter ID alarums are one more reason he’s earning a reputation for politicized, partial justice.

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