The Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments prohibited denying citizens the right to vote on account of race and sex. The Twenty-Fourth Amendment outlawed poll taxes. And the Twenty-Sixth Amendment extended the right to vote to citizens who are 18 or older.
In 1866, the Supreme Court severely undercut the department’s enforcement efforts by holding that the First Ku Klux Klan Act exceeded Congress’s power under the Fifteenth Amendment.
The legislative branch followed the judiciary, and both followed the Civil Rights Movement that swept the country. In 1965, in the wake of Bloody Sunday and based on a record developed in large part by the Civil Rights Division’s litigation, Congress enacted what President Johnson called “one of the most monumental laws in the entire history of American freedom” – the Voting Rights Act.
In 2013, the Shelby County decision effectively eliminated the preclearance protections of the Voting Rights Act, which had been the department’s most effective tool to protect voting rights over the past half-century.
As part of its mission to protect the right to vote, the Justice Department will, of course, do everything in its power to prevent election fraud and, if found, to vigorously prosecute it.
Kennedy told his assistants that was what he wanted to do. “Well General,” Burke Marshall replied, “if you want that, we’ve got to have a lot more lawyers.”
Well, today we are again without a preclearance provision. So again, the Civil Rights Division is going to need more lawyers. Accordingly, today I am announcing that – within the next thirty days – we will double the division’s enforcement staff for protecting the right to vote.
So Garland is admitting the DIJ has no power. If it did everything in its power to prevent election fraud and failed so miserably in Nov. 2020 - then they have NO power.
The Secret Police aka FBI and the Gestapo aka the DOJ are watching.
"The World Is Watching."
let the TRUTH come out Lord, let the TRUTH come out.
We are watching them.
So Garland is admitting the DIJ has no power. If it did everything in its power to prevent election fraud and failed so miserably in Nov. 2020 - then they have NO power.
I won't waste my time reading what Merrick Garland says.
Until he is convicted and sentenced to death... everything else he says is just "blah blah blah" .
Like Charlie Brown's teacher, LMAO