This is not soft soaped at all. Here Here.
Dear Attorney General Garland:
In this moment, the future of our democracy is at stake. Citizens across the country face an onslaught of antidemocratic laws designed to restrict access to the ballot, diminish the power of voters of color, and overturn the results of fair elections. These unabashedly racist and partisan attacks on our nation's democratic principles must be forcefully condemned and expeditiously reversed.
Congress looks to you, the Attorney General of the United States, to enforce the Constitution and our voting rights laws with unmitigated vigor and tenacity. We write to urge you to leverage the full might of the Department of Justice to defend the sacred right to vote for allAmericans. Since securing the right to vote, Black citizens continue to be disproportionately targeted for disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, voter purges, and other forms of voter suppression, vote dilution, and election subversion. This coordinated campaign to oppress Black voters is rooted in white supremacy and serves to further institutionalize the legacy of slavery.
There is no overstating the role of historic racism in modem disenfranchisement, and there is no overlooking or downplaying the ruthlessness of those who seek to suppress the vote.
States are feverishly introducing and advancing proposals to diminish meaningful participation in our elections.
Last year, more than 440 bills designed to restrict voting access were introducedin nearly every state across the nation .1 Moreover, at least nineteen states passed thirty-four lawsto achieve such a result .2 While we applaud the litigation that you have filed in some jurisdictions, we encourage and expect you to exponentially increase your efforts to challenge unlawful and unconstitutional voter suppression wherever it occurs.
Any state that enacts a law infringing on the right to vote should be met with a lawsuit in defense of the American people. If states face no consequences for their actions, they will be emboldened to pursue even more draconian voter suppression tactics reminiscent of Jim Crow era discrimination .For an example, you need not look any further than the proposed Office of Election Crime andSecurity in Florida. Despite vast amounts of evidence showing that election irregularities are1 Voting Laws Roundup: December 2021. BRENNAN CENTER (Jan. 12, 2022), https://www.brennancenter.org
Black lawmakers urge DOJ to stop stalling.
If our voting rights are not restored. There is nothing left.
Is Merrick Garland just taking up space at the DOJ?
We have a former president flushing documents.
Hiding sensitive material
Breaking laws left and right
People not complying with subpoenas and people like the National Archives demanding some action.
Voting rights
book banning’
I want Merrick Garland to know that if he is incapable of doing his job, he needs to resign. If laws are not enforced..there is no law.
He was not appointed to let other committees do his job. He is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer. Biden made a bad pick here, IMO.
If he is doing something, he needs to update the people that he is not just waiting things out. Saying people are not above the law and then allowing it is two separate things.