Obama’s Attorney General, Eric H. Holder Jr., has authored a book “Our Unfinished March,” Random House, 2022, on “voting rights,” and “saving our democracy.” The book is divided into parts on Lessons from the Past, the Crisis of the Present, and a More Perfect Future. Holder discusses voting rights focusing on voting by blacks.
Holder does an adequate job of describing the past when blacks and women were denied the right to vote, although he minimizes the role of the Democrats who controlled the Southern states in denying blacks the right to vote and minimizes the Republicans’ role in passing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, ending slavery, and opposing the Democrats’ Reconstruction policies.
Holder is enthusiastic to blame the present day Republicans for “suppressing” the vote. He calls President Trump a racist because Trump appointed “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions” as Attorney General. Presumably, Sessions is a racist because when he was a US Attorney in Alabama thirty years ago, he investigated a follower of Martin Luther King, Jr. for voter fraud. Imagine the nerve of Jeff. Trump is a racist because appointed Jeff who investigated MLK’s supporter. Got that? Another reason Trump is a racist is because he wanted the Census questionnaire to ask if the person was a citizen. The horror!
Holder throws incendiary language without real specific facts to support his claims of voter suppression. His main gripe is the photo ID because he says it is like the poll tax enacted by Democrats during the Reconstruction era. Evidently Holder is unaware that most people have a driver’s license, and most states provide an ID free of charge. If the cost of a photo ID is a real issue, then why not have the states and feds issue a “real ID” for voting. This would eliminate voters voting more than once. Better to spend money to have an honest election that to give the billions to Ukraine.
Holder repeats the Democratic mantra that blacks cannot get photo ID and therefore it is unfair to ask them to get a photo ID. But there is no explanation why blacks supposedly cannot get photo ID. He ignores the fact that blacks have no problem obtaining driver’s licenses, passports, student ID, and other forms of identification.
Holder says Georgia is suppressing the black vote because it passed a law prohibiting giving food and water to those waiting in line to vote. He says there are longer lines in black districts because of fewer voting booths. Does he really believe that blacks do not vote because nobody will give them a bottle of water while waiting to vote? This is a racist comment, but probably his argument for mail in voting.
Holder says Republicans are suppressing the vote because they passed laws to “purge” voter rolls. He criticizes updating voter rolls to remove those who died or moved. How unfair!
Holder believes the Republicans “stole” two Supreme Court seats with Gorsuch and Barrett because the Republicans did not schedule hearings for Garland and Trump appointed Barrett in his last year in office. He views the Supreme Court as having an “illegitimate majority.” But he criticizes Trump for saying the 2020 election was rigged.
Holder says the Trump’s rhetoric caused five persons to die on January 6, 2021, and five more officers who later committed suicide.
Holder, although he took an oath to defend the US Constitution, does not approve or like our constitution. He proposes:
- Eliminate the Electoral College (EC) to have election of the president by popular vote. He supports the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact Act which provides that the participating states will vote their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Fifteen states with 195 electoral votes have passed this law. They need to get enough states with 270 Electoral votes.
- Limit Supreme Court justices to 18 year terms. Expand the Supreme Court to allow each president to appoint two justices each 4 years. This may result in the Court having an equal number of justices, between 7 and 15 or more.
- Make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states. Holder assumes that because their population is predominantly black, they will vote for Democrat senators thus giving the Dems four more senators.
- Allow same day voter registration. Allow former “incarcerated” persons to vote. Pre-register 16 and 17 year old to vote. And of course, no photo ID. It would be easier and more accurate to say allow everyone to vote with no ID.
The bottom line is that Holder views Republicans as evil, except for maybe Lynn Cheney and Mitt Romney, a/k/a Pierre Delecto. Holder prefers a one-party rule by the Democrats as in California.
Holder’s views are radical, but we now have a president who rules by executive orders to cancel student debt by having taxpayers pay the debt, spends billions to protect Ukraine’s borders but zero to protect our southern border resulting in open borders with massive illegal immigration. Biden would undoubtedly support Holder’s proposals.
It seems Holder is upset because there are no real serious battles or issues for voting rights such as the battles fought by Martin Luther King, Charles Evers, and Medgar Evers, and others. Holder is reduced to arguing about photo ID and bottles of water for voters waiting to vote.
Holder’s proposals are part of Obama’s promise to fundamentally transform our country.
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Eric Holder attended Stuyvesant High School in NYC (the same as our old troll DRed aka Karma Boy). It is a public school for “gifted” students that has been deemed racist because it does not have enough alumni who look like Holder. By Holder’s logic, does this make him racist?
Eric was a partner, now senior counsel, at Covington Burlington. He bills at $2300 an hour, not bad for a racist country to pay him this.
Incidentally, General Flynn racked up legal bills of over one million at CB, before got another attorney to withdraw his guilty plea.
He assumes blacks cannot get a photo Id or bring a water bottle to the voting line.
Since, presumably he voted for the Big Guy/China Joe, then according to China Joe he is a real black and cannot be a racist.
Allow former “incarcerated” persons to vote.
I agree with this, because if the person served their sentence they have fulfilled their obligation and thus they must be restored. Otherwise, justice is not served – once a con always a con – therefore, justice is not blind. The reason for a sentence is to equal the crime. If there’s a problem with the sentence, then change it. Now, if there’s a repeat criminal, maybe after 3 sentences, then it might be reasonable to withhold the franchise.
Some might accuse me of going weak, but I agree with you. Since Jesus died on the cross to forgive us of all our sins, man shows how he has fallen, by not allowing one to ever completely let another man pay for his, when punishment by man is meted. Man’s justice may never equal God’s justice. If the punishment fits the crime, the man should return to his previous status, after serving his time, unless he continues committing crimes and sinning.
As far as oaths go, they rely on the oath being given, and the belief in the one they are giving that oath to. If one has no belief system, or has one that is different than what that oath to be given was based on, that oath is of no value, and the one swearing that oath should be cast out from any office he holds.
One might think that not honoring an oath to the Constitution, and to God, that might be, at the very least, treason. It’s also using God’s name in vain, which is a sin against God by the one swearing such oath. We allowed the watering down of oaths when affirming became the way for an atheist to become beholden to an oath. According to parts of Islam, that is acceptable, since one can lie, if it is in favor of Muhammed, but Muhammed was only a prophet, according to the teachings of Islam. A proper oath in Islam would be to Allah, and not Muhammed. The oaths our country required, before the introduction of affirmation as a way of keeping an oath sacred, if you can say it like that, required a belief in God, because we are a country founded in that belief. Our oaths are to the United States Constitution and to God, who is not merely a prophet, but the Creator.
I wonder if Eric Holder sees it like that?
Those who honor their oaths are becoming a very rare bunch. Because we don’t hold the lot of them to their oaths. Someone has to start.