Clarion Ledger:
Holder’s logic is apparently that while states should have lots of leeway on how they deal with enforcement of federal laws against smoking and selling weed, states should not have that same leeway when it comes to efforts to fight perceived voter fraud.
And, in Holder’s world, what the U.S. Supreme Court has to say about the enforcement of voting rights can also be ignored if the Obama administration doesn’t agree with it. But since the Obama administration apparently thinks laws decriminalizing marijuana are a peachy keen idea, they will wink and nudge at existing federal anti-drug laws that clearly make marijuana sale and consumption illegal.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Holder clearly thinks laws should be enforced by region, too.
President Obama had to show his ID to vote in his home state of Illinois in early voting in 2012 and he was filmed doing so by every news network on the planet. Holder’s Justice Department signed off on voter ID laws in Virginia and Indiana, and the Supreme Court approved Indiana’s laws, which mirror those in Mississippi.
But the Obama administration strictly opposes voter ID laws in the South.