Especially Dead People
Bill Quick

Texas Sues DOJ Over Voter ID Law | Judicial Watch

Texas is suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) in federal court for blocking the implementation of a state voter identification law—passed to deter and detect election fraud—the Obama Administration claims discriminates against minorities.

If that is the case, then every law that requires a citizen to show identification for any purpose discriminates against minorities.

Bill Quick

About Bill Quick

I am a small-l libertarian with conservative leanings on most issues, except on many traditionally conservative social issues, where my stance would be regarded as hopelessly liberal by most social conservatives. My primary concern is to increase individual liberty as much as possible in the face of statist efforts to restrict it from both the right and the left. If I had to sum up my beliefs as concisely as possible, I would say, "Stay out of my wallet and my bedroom," "your liberty stops at my nose," and "don't tread on me." I will believe that things are taking a turn for the better in America when married gays are able to, and do, maintain large arsenals of automatic weapons, and tax collectors are, and do, not.
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5 Responses to Especially Dead People

  1. SteveF says:

    That would make a great headline:

    Law enforced equally
    Minorities hit hardest

  2. Kyle Haight says:

    If there were any conservative lawyers with time on their hands and a sense of humor, they should start filing lawsuits challenging any law requiring presentation of an ID on the grounds that it is racially discriminatory. Cite the Obama administrations legal arguments in the Voter ID cases to back up the claim.

    Either the other ID laws get struck down, in which case we’ve delivered a blow to the surveillance state, or they get upheld, in which case we have loads of court precedent that requiring an ID is not racially discriminatory and the Voter ID laws stand.

  3. Steve_in_CA says:

    If you need an ID to exercise one right specified in the Amendments of the Constitution, ie the Second Amendment; then you need one for the Fifteenth Amendment. Interesting factoid:

    The Congress proposed the Fifteenth Amendment on February 26, 1869.[11] The final vote in the Senate was 39 to 13, with 14 not voting.[12] Several fierce advocates of equal rights, such as Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, abstained from voting because the amendment did not prohibit devices which states might use to restrict black suffrage, such as literacy tests and poll taxes.[13] The vote in the House was 144 to 44, with 35 not voting. The House vote was almost entirely along party lines, with no Democrats supporting the bill and only 3 Republicans voting against it.

  4. genes genes says:

    Zombies are people too, no longer living but people nonetheless. Just because they’re life challenged is no reason to deny them the right to vote.

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