House Democrats Attempt to Circumvent Supreme Court Rulings with New Voting Bill

(Jack Davis, The Western Journal) House Democrats who failed in their first attempt to secure federal control of elections across America have introduced new legislation they hope to pass this fall.

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Source – The Federalist Papers

by Jack Davis, The Western Journal, August 19th, 2021

The bill would restore pieces of the 1965 Voting Rights Act the Supreme Court has already struck down, according to the Washington Examiner.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats must pass new legislation because neither diabolical red states nor the Supreme Court can be trusted, according to a news release on her website.

“A brazen, partisan campaign of voter suppression silences voters of color across the nation and threatens to erode our democracy,” Pelosi said.

“Further, the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Shelby v. Holder opened the floodgates of voter suppression, allowing states with dark histories of bigotry and discrimination to pass hundreds of laws designed to keep communities of color from the ballot box. This year alone, eighteen states have enacted thirty dangerous voter suppression laws, while the Court has continued its assault on the Voting Rights Act.”

Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, said Congress needs to act.

“It is now time for Congress to respond, by developing legislation that responds to our current situation, with respect to redistricting and otherwise — a situation in which voting rights are under pressure to an extent that has not been seen since the Civil Rights era,” Clarke said in prepared testimony.

However, The Heritage Foundation is warning against legislation cloaked in the language of civil rights that erodes election integrity.

“HR 4 is the left’s latest iteration of an election takeover designed to remove fundamental election safeguards and open opportunities for cheaters to manipulate election results in their favor. The bill would essentially require every state to get the approval of partisan attorneys in the Biden administration before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices,” Heritage Foundation President Kay James said in a statement.

“Instead, HR 4 would make it easier for those intent on committing fraud to cancel out the votes of law-abiding Americans by preventing states from implementing commonsense voter integrity laws and practices,” James said.

Hans von Spakovsky, manager of Heritage’s Election Law Reform Initiative and senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said H.R. 4 injects the federal government into local actions in an unprecedented fashion.

“This is as if you gave the DNC the ability to veto any state election law they don’t like,” von Spakovsky said, according to the Examiner.

In the new bill, the question of intention is removed.

“All it has to have is a disparate impact, which is a very dubious way of structuring the law,” he said.

Although the Democrats’ earlier attempt to rewrite voting laws passed the House, it failed to advance in the Senate.

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