The apparent refusal of President Trump’s Justice Department to engage in any meaningful, public enforcement of the Voting Rights Act has taken Republicans’ general hostility to the law to a whole new level.
This is my shocked face,
Wouldn’t enforcement of the VRA lead to more voting by minority groups? So you really can’t be surprised that a group dedicated to limiting (eliminating?) the rights of others to vote largely for the Dems to pull a Sgt. Schultz on this, can you?
Voting is only a ‘right’ if you are voting Republican. Otherwise you are misinformed, corrupt, stupid and fake.
We all have the right to vote as Putin tells us.
“They can claim all they want that they have active investigations. If there are no lawsuits being filed, I really doubt that that’s correct,”
It’s just another sign of the remarkable success of the Trump administration. There are no investigations because there are no violations. The states have all fallen in line under the strong leadership of Trump and Barr. Individual voters are still filing lawsuits challenging discriminatory policies but those are all hoaxes trying to make president Trump look bad.
This is what the venal Roberts’ SC wanted when it declared that state-sponsored racism was over.
“The current dry spell in DOJ voting rights enforcement is unprecedented, according to the DOJ’s own public record and what former voting section officials told TPM.”
“DOJ / unprecedented” - two words that don’t belong together.
Well no shit, Sherlock. Did Cap’n Obvious tell you that?
Obviously, there have been no voting rights problems. Why don’t the libtards get that?
TPM will never report on trumPP’s failures because his perceived successes make for better copy. The fact is voters’ hatred for him drove turn out in a lot of places with people who’d previously voted for him saying “no more.” Case in point Virginia. Biden wasn’t expected to carry it, but there was so much opposition to trumPP, it drove people to the polls for him and 53% of the vote. His support cut across all the demographics, men, women, disaffected repubs, POC, etc.
I’m waiting for a deep dives into stories where Democrats prevail and trumPP’s admin is a footnote. Stories like this.
I had a POC colleague who was eminently qualified and who had clerked for a very partisan GOP judge. He interviewed, in complete good faith, for an entryway job with the Civil Rights Division at the outset of the GWB administration. He did not get that job. Not even close. They’re not interested in civil rights.
It’s part of a larger trend.
Notice how Trump unlike previous presidents never if rarely uses the terms freedom and democracy in his speeches and when he talks about religious freedom it’s done as a way to assuage the religious right evangelicals not as respect for all of the world’s religions or those who are non believers.
Vote, you win, I lose.
…and they’ve never been interested in voting rights…ever.
Trump’s DOJ Has Not Filed A Single New Voting Rights Act Case | Talking Points Memo
Well yes, but that’s because they’re having a lot of trouble finding a plaintiff. Nobody will admit trying to vote for him.
Trump and his cronies are a stain on our history and all things good and decent and fair.
Here’s mine: 
Not since Lincoln, anyway.