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Leahy/Conyers Voting Rights Bill: DOJ can still attack voter ID with lawsuits, including preemptive Section 5 objections

According to draft legislation proposed by Senator Leahy, voter identification laws will still be challenged by left wing groups on multiple different theories under the Voting Rights Act and other legal theories.  The proposal that voter ID laws would not trigger federal “preclearance” supervision if they are found to be discriminatory is an illusionary concession. 

The law automatically places multiple states under strict federal control and will effectively end their voter ID, citizen verification, and list maintenance laws.  Once a state is placed under Section 5 preclearance, it would then allow the Holder DOJ to object to any and all changes or procedures to voter ID laws and interfere with the implementation of voter integrity laws.
  

Extinction of Conservative Democrats

Fox News reports on how redistricting was a factor in the extinction of moderate Democrats.  The untold story is the role of Department of Justice racial policies as extinction events. 

“So there is a way forward for Democrats,” Tulchin, president of San Francisco-based Tulchin Research, told FoxNews.com on Saturday. “But not with the kind of redistricting that McIntyre had. It wasn’t a fair fight.”