The Justice Department is playing “fast and loose” with the facts and the Constitution in blocking state voter ID laws, says The National Center for Public Policy Research: “Attorney General Eric Holder is supposed to be the chief law enforcement officer, not the chief partisan officer. Latinos, Blacks, and Whites all suffer when ghost voters and other election irregularities determine election outcomes. Instead of undermining voter confidence, the Justice Department should be working to encourage it,” concluded Cooper.
“The actions of the Department of Justice are wholly unjustified. The foot-dragging, the shoddy statistical analysis and the decision to ignore U.S. Supreme Court precedent reveal either a beleaguered Justice Department incapable of maintaining a professional level of operation or a rogue agency willfully placing its weight on one side of the scale of justice.”
Last week the NCPPR announced the formation of a ‘Voter Identification Task Force’ “to continue the excellent work of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in promoting measures to enhance integrity in voting.”