Session Nomination A Golden Opportunity To Focus On Republican Voter Suppression/Disenfranchisement

[KittyWampus]

The Republicans have used the Southern Strategy for decades, although the Media never called them on it to any great extent. It was their silent dog whistles and less overt methods of keeping minorities from voting that flourished for decades. Example, not allowing anyone with a felony to vote and then making sure certain segments of our society get felony records. Voter purges.

In the past decade or so the Republican party has overtly begun to disenfranchise LEGAL minority voters. And they are on record bragging about it.

And yet the Media and too many Americans are totally oblivious to this or refuse to care. Despite the fact our country was founded in part due to "taxation without representation". If minorities are legal citizens and yet not allowed to vote due to Republican chicanery and malfeasance, why are they paying taxes?

So it seems to me that nominating Sessions for AG is a golden opportunity to bring a spotlight to the way the Republican party is openly preventing LEGAL voters from casting their ballots. It was a bogus case and the jury threw it out.



In 1985, Sessions was US Attorney in Mobile AL and he brought indictments against 3 black individuals over alleged voter fraud. Specifically, that Robert Turner, Evelyn Turner and Spencer Hogue altered ballots.

Robert Turner, Albert’s brother and an attorney in Marion, Ala., said in a phone interview Friday that the defendants – later known as the Marion Three – were trying to assist poor and elderly voters in casting ballots. In some cases, the defendants said they were helping illiterate voters mark their ballots, and only altered ballots when requested.

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Sessions was present at the trial in Selma but left the prosecution in two assistants' hands. He denied the prosecution targeted black voters and said the case stemmed from complaints from local officials. A jury of seven blacks and five whites acquitted the defendants of all charges. The presiding judge threw out more than half of the charges for lack of evidence before the jury received the case.

“I thought that the prosecution was unwarranted and had no merit,” Robert Turner said Friday. “I thought it was deliberately done to dissuade black people from voting. I don’t think he did it for a just cause.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/18/black-belt-voter-fraud-case-alabama-shaped-sen-jeff-sessions-career/94088186/

[Warren DeMontague]

1. The problem is, they scream about "voter fraud" in response.

It doesn't matter that there's absolutely zero evidence of any of this shit, they've got all the right-wing AM radio listeners convinced that there are Soros-funded buses hauling poor black people around across state lines to vote repeatedly, that millions of dead people are voting, etc.

It's like "planned parenthood is selling baby organs" -- doesn't matter that it's bullshit, it's been proven to be bullshit, these jackknobs believe it.