GOP uses Loretta Lynch hearing to debate voting rights

[TomCADem]

Source: MSNBC

Republicans used the confirmation hearings this week for Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s attorney general nominee, to stress their commitment to voting restrictions—and to try to tie Lynch’s hands on voting issues should she assume the post.

One GOP senator pressed Lynch on her stance on restrictive voting laws. And Republicans asked for testimony from a witness who has led the effort to stoke fear over voter fraud, suggested her group was targeted by the Obama administration because of her group’s support for voter ID laws.

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Tillis then read more pointed comments on the law that Lynch made in a speech on Martin Luther King Day last year.

At that time, she said: “I’m proud to tell you that the Department of Justice has looked at these laws and looked at what’s happening in the Deep South, and in my home state of North Carolina has brought lawsuits against those voting rights changes that seek to limit our ability to stand up and exercise our rights as citizens. And those lawsuits will continue.”

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gop-uses-loretta-lynch-hearing-debate-voting-rights

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How dare the nominee for AG oppose GOP efforts to disenfranchise Americans?

[davidpdx]

1. They think it's their God given white

[Ford_Prefect]

2. Tillis IS the scum of the earth. His actions are bought and paid for by Art Pope and the Kochs.

I have to live in the NC his bosses are "creating". He and they are Dominionist lunatics who would see the earth stripped of anyone who opposes their views.

They should all be arrested for treason and extortion.