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Nearly 15 months after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Georgia over a “racist” and vote-suppressing election fairness law, the Biden administration has taken a look at the status of that lawsuit and how Georgia will prepare for the next midterm. The election results will be tainted by “Jim Crow” laws.
The Justice Department told Fox News Digital last week that since voters are supposed to be heading to polling places in Georgia under the president’s jurisdiction over election law, the Georgia Elections Integrity Act, in addition to public court submissions. He said he had no updates on the lawsuit against Biden called it a “21st-century Jim Crow” and a “blatant attack on the Constitution.”
According to Hans von Spakowski, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Mies Center for Law and Judicial Studies, these court filings point to a weak case that has only gotten weaker over time.
Von Spakowski, who is also manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, told Fox News Digital about the DOJ lawsuit. “And subsequent events have made their case even more difficult.”
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Von Spakowski explained that a judge last month refused to issue a preliminary injunction against a ban on offering food, drink and gifts to voters in line, argued by the Justice Department. To deny or reduce the right to vote on the grounds of race. ”
In addition to its retreat, the recent primaries in Georgia recorded record voter turnout After the law came into force, Von Spakowski said it was clearly inconsistent not only with the main arguments against the bill, but also with specific complaints about some of the bill’s provisions.
Von Spakowski pointed to one provision of the bill questioned by DOJ that the deadline for requiring absentee ballots was moved from four days before the election to 11 days. The 11th mark is shorter than his 15th mark proposed by the US Postal Service, yet More early votes than last election.
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“Georgia went from the 4th to the 11th, but what happened with the May 24 primary? Absentee voting has gone up significantly,” said Von Spakowski. Told. “In the last midterm election of 2018, 13,000 Democrats in the state voted in absentee ballots.In this primary, these new changes to absentee ballot rules, including ID requirements, will result in 50,000 Democrats. of Democrats voted in absentee ballots.”
Von Spakowski continued, “There were these big increases and voter turnout approaching presidential election year levels, but this never happened. It made the claim even more difficult.”
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Fox News Digital asked von Spakovsky if it’s unusual for a case like this to not make much progress after 15 months.
“I think so,” said von Spakowski. Their whole argument is that these rules are affecting people’s ability to vote and that they are moving very slowly. As each month passes, it becomes less and less likely that they will win. ”
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and March 2021 statementBiden called Georgia’s law an “attack on voting rights” containing clauses that “effectively deny the right to vote for countless voters.”
“This is the Jim Crow of the 21st century,” Biden said. “It has to end. We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act.”
The Biden White House was asked to comment on Fox News Digital’s update on the lawsuit and whether the results of the upcoming Georgia Senate election, which could determine the balance of power in the Senate, are legal. but did not reply. The “Jim Crow” label that the administration has attached to the election process.
“The right to vote is one of the most central rights of a democracy, and protecting the right to vote for all Americans is the mission of the Division of Civil Rights,” said Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Division of Civil Rights. is the core of the press release DOJ lawsuit announced. “The Department of Justice will use all available tools to ensure that each eligible citizen registers, casts a ballot, and that ballot is counted without racial discrimination. Like Georgia Senate Bill 202 Laws adopted for racially motivated purposes have no place in today’s democracies.”
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Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp and Republican Secretary of State Brad Ravensperger both said record voter turnout in Georgia meant the law in question stifled voting rights in Peach. I agree with von Spakowski’s analysis that undermines DOJ’s claims.
“President Biden’s DOJ and its liberal allies have failed miserably when it comes to actually presenting evidence to support their ludicrous points in court,” Raffensperger told Fox News Digital. Common sense electoral reforms in state election integrity laws make sense, like photo ID for all forms of voting.”
Raffensperger continued, “Despite what people like President Biden, Stacey Abrams, and their liberal supporters say, Georgia’s election fairness law holds Georgia number one for electoral integrity. One, allowing them to maintain records and ever-growing voter turnout.
Raffensperger’s office told Fox News Digital that 1.9 million eligible voters participated in the 2022 primary, compared with 1.2 million in 2018, and that African-American voter turnout was ahead of the 2020 presidential primary. It was 22% higher than any other primary, he said.
A spokesman for Republican Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia told Fox News Digital:
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Kemp’s office said the law was rated “the strongest and safest in the United States” by the Heritage Foundation and that “the law has seen no widespread problems in statewide or local elections since it came into effect.” added. occurred, he claimed. ”
Von Spakowski, who worked with Clark in the DOJ’s civil rights division 20 years ago, called Clark the most “partisan left activist” he “ever met in Washington.” resulting in repression and discrimination in the United States, indicating increased registration and voter turnout.
“They basically prosecuted the losers,” von Spakowski said.