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In yet another example of Eric Holder gone wild, the top law enforcement officer in the nation will join members of the Congressional Black Caucus, IRS officials, ACLU attorneys and clergy from the Council of National Black Churches "to discuss ideas to combat the wave of new voter ID laws existing around the country."
Can anyone imagine a Republican Attorney General of the United States counseling white churches on voting rights?
CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) said the May 30 summit will advise hundreds of pastors from nine different denominations on the best way to educate their parishioners on the new rules.
We will have attorneys there who are well-equipped to provide the guidance to the clergy members.
They will understand, before they leave, about some of the new laws in certain states designed - as we interpret them - to reduce the turnout. The day is over when they could just stand in the pulpit and say 'Go vote. It's your duty.' They've got to now be equipped with some sophisticated information to help inspire a turnout and protect parishioners from some of the schemes that are out there.
The attack on voting rights is not only coordinated, it is dangerous and it is the worst we've seen since Jim Crow.
Given the immense challenge before us, the CBC has decided to take this matter into our own hands and this time we are working with the Black Church, which has diligently served our community for over 200 years fighting for freedom, justice, and equality when African Americans had nowhere else to turn".
AG Holder will be the keynote speaker at the all-day conference on Wednesday. Here are some of the topics on the schedule:
The Problem: State of Voting Rights in the USA
Nicole Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice NYU School of Law
Marcia Johnson-Blanco, Co-Director, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers Committee
Deborah J. Vagins, Senior Legislative Counsel, ACLU
Protecting Your Tax Exempt Status: Conversation with IRS

2:00 PM
"Protecting Your Tax Exempt Status" Conversation with IRS Q&A
IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman
IRS Religious Activities

Voting Rights Call to Action
Moderator: The Honorable Marcia Fudge, 11th District Ohio
Cindy Smalls, Voter Protection Manager, AFL-CIO
Jamie Harrison, Principal, Podesta Group
Adwoa Ansah, President and CEO, Faith Link
Rev Tony Lee, Pastor, Community of Hope
Jeff Johnson, Political Analyst, MSNBC
IRS Northeast Area Manager, Peter Lorenzetti

During a House subcommittee hearing last spring Rep. John Culberson of Texas accused Holder of refusing to prosecute members of the Black Panther Party. The AG took offense insisting "his Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way."
Is helping black pastors to get the vote out -- all on the taxpayer's dime I might add -- not being "race conscious?" And how about that pesky separation of church and state violation?


http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/eric_holder_integrates_chu
rch_and_state_in_anti-voter_id_pushback.html#ixzz1wNVWfj7s

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Originally posted by AURaptor:There is NO constitutional right for the citizens to vote for the President of the United States. It's true, there is NONE.

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Since every state has choosen to assign their electors by popular vote people do indeed have the right to vote for president. Not to mention that there will be more than the presidental race on the ballet.

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Originally posted by m52nickerson: It sounds like the Jutice Department is ensure people can exercise that right.

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top law enforcement officer, told a gathering of black church leaders on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., that laws requiring citizens to show a photo I.D. before voting were a threat to voting rights.

He said such laws place "an unfair burden on non-white voters."

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Originally posted by m52nickerson:
Non-whites are not looking for a free pass. The fact is that ID requirements and other such laws disproportionately affect blacks and other minorities.

Until I moved to Florida I never once had to show my ID to vote in New York State.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
No they don't. Blacks and other minorities have the same access, the same ability to get IDs as anyone. And most state IDs can be issued, free of charge. Claiming 'non whites' are at some imaginary disadvantage is a trumped up fallacy.

This is an overt attack by the AG , to politicize this election year, as much as possible. It's beyond disgusting.

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It's an overt effort by the GOP to politicize voting rights this year.

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Not requiring ID's would also make the requirements equal.

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Rule # 39: There is no such thing as coincidence.

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Still not seeing the whole "integration of church and state" part of this story.

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And you've been utterly unable to make your case.


Guess there's nothing to this story after all.

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And you've been utterly unable to make your case.


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There's everything to this story, and it's all that you're conveniently ignoring, out of pure , juvenile spite. The AG shouldn't be politicizing ANYTHING, and yet he's speaking to exclusively Left wing groups, BLACK church leaders....he's not even hiding his bias, or pretending to be neutral on the issue. Holder is , once again, politicking, from the office of AG that should be looking out for everyone, not catering to his party's platform.

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Yes. It would. For illegals and dead voters, everywhere.

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Rule # 39: There is no such thing as coincidence.

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Right. Which is why these particular rules seem to be cropping up in battleground states and states with newly Republican majorities and supermajorities.

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If a state has a Republican majority, then why do they want to require IDs? To keep the leftists, like you, from rigging the election with graveyard voters.

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Originally posted by m52nickerson:
The voter ID laws are addressing a problem which simply does not exist.

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Actually, it does exist, and has been shown to exist, time and time again. Which is the reason why it's being addressed.

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Actually, it does exist, and has been shown to exist, time and time again. Which is the reason why it's being addressed.

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Really, show me massive cases of voter fraud. Don't bother to mention ACORN because that was registration fraud and was caught because of the verification system.

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It might not be a "massive" case, but Indiana's Secretary of State, a Republican, was convicted of six felony counts of voter fraud this year.

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Photocopying on the petitions was so rampant that one sheet with 15 signatures was copied once or in some cases two times with the duplicates mixed into the stack. In those cases, 15 signatures would be turned into 30 or 60. The difference between the copies would be changes to the petition identification number and in some cases a different petition circulator's signature.

The overt copying is "frankly unheard of," said Chris Thomas, Michigan's director of elections, as he thumbed through the stack of petitions Tuesday. "It's amazing when you sit and look, and it starts to dwell on you what they've done."

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A government official is trashed because he's trying to HELP legitimate American citizens utilize their right to vote...

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Nah, those don't affect Republicans getting more and more power; and they're useful in insisting we're a "Christian" nation, so Christians (certain GROUPS of Christians, that is) should always get preferential treatment.

Careful, or they'll claim you're waging a "War on Money"!

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Meanwhile, I wonder if Rappy will join a movement to remove "in god we trust" from our money, and get the "under god" part stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance, since both of those were late add-ons that were never intended to be there in the first place.

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Actually, it does exist, and has been shown to exist, time and time again. Which is the reason why it's being addressed.

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Really, show me massive cases of voter fraud. Don't bother to mention ACORN because that was registration fraud and was caught because of the verification system.

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Meanwhile, I wonder if Rappy will join a movement to remove "in god we trust" from our money, and get the "under god" part stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance, since both of those were late add-ons that were never intended to be there in the first place.

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A government official is trashed because he's trying to HELP legitimate American citizens utilize their right to vote...

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Thing is, right-wing idiots like Rappy keepy trying to insist that legitimate American citizens HAVE no right to vote.

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It might not be a "massive" case, but Indiana's Secretary of State, a Republican, was convicted of six felony counts of voter fraud this year.

Rappy seemed to feel there was nothing to it, though. Imagine that.

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It might not be a "massive" case, but Indiana's Secretary of State, a Republican, was convicted of six felony counts of voter fraud this year.

Rappy seemed to feel there was nothing to it, though. Imagine that.

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There WAS nothing to it. The issues was his place of residency, not tampering with votes, as you'd like folks to believe.

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Gotta love the pre-qualifiers.

Show me! But don't include ACORN,and make sure they're " massive ", other wise I won't acknowledge there's any issue in the first place.

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Gotta love the pre-qualifiers.

Show me! But don't include ACORN,and make sure they're " massive ", other wise I won't acknowledge there's any issue in the first place.

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...all because disenfranchising people and making everyone jump through hoops to vote is not worth it to address a few cases that would not affect an election result. As far as ACORN, as I said it was registration fraud, not voter fraud. There is a difference. The voter ID laws would not have helped against the ACORN case.

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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There is NO constitutional right for the citizens to vote for the President of the United States. It's true, there is NONE.

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