The DOJ’s Early Christmas Present to the Left
‘Twas two nights
before Christmas, and all through D.C.
not a politician was stirring, not even in the House.
But leftists had given Justice scares,
so that rejection of voter ID soon would be theirs.
Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a gift to the left on
December 23 by issuing a letter denying preclearance of the South Carolina
voter ID law. The Department of Justice
rushed out a politically motivated decision during a busy time in the hopes of
sneaking it in without anyone noticing.
But as the Republican National
Lawyers Association pointed
out, Holder didn’t check his list twice this year. The state’s Department of
Motor Vehicles found
that the numbers the Department of Justice relied upon were wrong. Actually, those number of South Carolina
voters who do not have photo IDs was 86% lower than initially reported. The
Department of Justice believed that 207,000 people did not have IDs and
factored it into the analysis that the voter ID law is discriminatory.
It’s no surprise that South
Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called
the Justice Department’s decision an “outrageous… terrible, clearly political
decision.”
More and more members of Congress
are distinguishing the Attorney General from the man in the red suit because
Eric Holder’s no saint. In the House, a resolution to declare no-confidence in the Attorney
General has been proposed by Rep. Paul Gosar.
The tally of members of the House of Representatives calling
for the resignation of the current Attorney General is now at
65.
Gosar sprang to the
floor, to Congress he gave a whistle,
Saying, "Away Holder should go like the down of a thistle.
“We should exclaim, as Holder is driven out of sight,
“’Fair elections for all, and voter ID’s alright!’”