Civil-rights leaders met with Team Biden at the White House on Thursday to protest what they claim is a widespread assault on voting rights for blacks and people of color, according to Al Sharpton. Another participant, Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, said the groups message was that democracy is under vigorous, vicious and sinister attack. Disregard the phony handwringing and Morials flamboyant warning about an effort to impose a system of an American apartheid.
Their goal isnt making voting easier. They want to outlaw safeguards that many state lawmakers believe are needed to keep voting honest.
At the top of their list of grievances was the Supreme Courts June 1 ruling upholding Arizonas anti-fraud voting laws. The left is using the ruling as a pretext to demand Congress pass the For the People Act, also dubbed HR1.
HR1 would override laws like Arizonas, ban voter-identification requirements and lay the groundwork for a permanent Democratic majority.
In the Arizona case, the justices, by a 6-3 majority, found no evidence that state voting laws put minority voters ......................