Watch Live: Justice Department Suing Georgia Over New Voting Law
The Justice Department is suing Georgia over a sweeping new voting law passed by the state’s Republican-led legislature, marking the first major step taken by the Biden administration to interfere with state-level election laws enacted since the 2020 election.
According to the New York Times, this will be one of the highest-profile enforcement actions since 2013, when the Supreme Court neutered the government’s ability to stop states from passing laws viewed as facilitating voter discrimination.
The lawsuit shows that the Justice Department under the Biden administration intends to use the remaining tools at its disposal to aggressively fight state actions that it sees as potentially disenfranchising minority voters.
Mr. Garland said earlier this month that the department would deploy all of its available tools to combat voter discrimination. -NYT
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Tyler Durden
Fri, 06/25/2021 – 11:13
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