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Well, that\u2019s a big surprise. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the federal government is suing Texas to make sure the state follows federal civil-rights law \u2013 and Texas Republicans go ballistic, saying the feds are picking on the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n

Someone has to be singled out, yes? If not Texas, then which state feels the heat? Mississippi? Alabama? Georgia?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/313535-texas-gop-pans-holder-move<\/a><\/p>\n

Holder has asked a court to require Texas to obtain \u201cpre-clearance\u201d before enacting any state laws governing Texans\u2019 voting rights. It seems Texas is one of those states with some history of denying certain folks full access to voting rights based on their race or ethnicity. The U.S. Supreme Court decided earlier this year that the federal requirement is no longer necessary and has left these decisions up to the states.<\/p>\n

The AG says that\u2019s not good enough.<\/p>\n

Thus, the Justice Department is taking action to ensure that Texas complies right off the top.<\/p>\n

I applaud the attorney general for seeking to guarantee that the rights of full citizenship for all Americans \u2013 even those who live in Texas \u2013 are protected under federal law.<\/p>\n

The Hill said this in reporting the story:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite House spokesman Josh Earnest defended the move, saying \u2018the goal of the administration\u2026 is to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans.’   <\/p>\n

\u2018\u201cThat includes protecting the voting rights of all Americans who are eligible to vote \u2013 that\u2019s the goal here,\u2019 Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One. \u2018I would assume that that would be a goal that would also be supported by congressional Republicans. We\u2019ll see.\u2019” <\/p>\n

Members of the state\u2019s congressional delegation, dominated of course by Republicans, see it differently. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy belief is (the) Voting Rights Act and those laws ought to be applied equally across states, and not played for political games, which is exactly what I see happening here,\u201d U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady said. \u201cEric Holder (is) just singling us out \u2013 just skipped through the alphabet and happened to land on Texas.\u201d <\/p>\n

Something tells me the Justice Department doesn\u2019t really care what Texas Republicans \u2013 given their intense antipathy toward the president and his administration \u2013 think of its voting-rights policy.<\/p>\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s a big surprise. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the federal government is suing Texas to make sure the state follows federal civil-rights law \u2013 and Texas Republicans go ballistic, saying the feds are picking on the Lone Star State. Someone has to be singled out, yes? If not Texas, then which … Continue reading AG picks fight with Texas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,1617,4691,4984,5141],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-10th-amendment","tag-eric-holder","tag-texas-republican-party","tag-u-s-supreme-court","tag-voting-rights-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}