President Obama’s Bogus Voting Rights Claims

John Hames shared with you:   President Obama's Bogus Voting Rights Claims The Foundry - Last Friday, in a speech at Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference, President Obama proudly announced that the Justice Department had taken on more than 100 voting rights cases since 2009. The problem with that claim is that, since 2009, the Justice Department has taken on only 39 voting rights cases—and as former Voting Section lawyer Christian Adams points out, only 13 were related to protecting minority voting rights. And, with respect to some of the cases in which the department has been involved, it lost spectacularly—such as its false claim that South Carolina's voter ID law was discriminatory. President Obama also made no mention of his administration's unjustified dismissal of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party—that would, after all, not fit the narrative he is trying to propagate. Regardless, President Obama's exaggerated claims come as no surprise, especially given the setting of this particular speech. Available on the App Store.

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