Garland announces expansion of Justice Department's voting rights unit, vowing to scrutinize GOP-bac
Source: Washington Post
Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged Friday to double the size of the Justice Department’s voting rights enforcement staff to combat efforts to restrict ballot access and prosecute those who threaten or harm election workers.
In an expansive speech that invoked the nation’s long and, at times, faltering progress toward ensuring every American’s right to vote, Garland likened the fight against efforts to curtail ballot access to past campaigns enshrining voting rights for Black Americans in the Constitution and the seminal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Garland said the additional trial attorneys, which he plans to hire over the coming 30 days, will scrutinize new laws and existing practices across the nation for potential discrimination against Americans of color, including in new measures GOP state lawmakers are pushing. They will enforce provisions of the Voting Rights Act by challenging such laws or practices in court — and prosecute anyone found to intimidate or threaten violence against election officials.
The expanded unit will also monitor the growing number of post-election ballot reviews being called for around the country by supporters of former president Donald Trump in search of signs of violations of federal laws, Garland said, and will watch over upcoming redistricting efforts to call out discriminatory practices.
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And there are a LOT of folks who are angry at him while others defend him.
However how is he going to get the GQP in on this? We know that the man from WV is holding Dems hostage, and so is the twit from Arizona also, who also doesn't even fully know what a filibuster IS, and neither is going to let the filibuster die because they believe that it's DEMS who aren't being bi-partisan 😑 Rotten, racist ass McTurtle's said he is going to stop Pres. Biden's agenda and that NO GPQ'er will vote for anything in this Biden far left administration or words to that effect.
Neither DINO is going to find any GQP votes I don't think to pass voting rights legislation.
WHAT am I missing here? 
I'm not even talking about that big, fat MESS Garland was left with from fatas45's corrupt DOJ et al. I know Garland's in for a tough slog there with that.
I do wonder, however, how difficult it will be to prove that these laws specifically target people because of race or similar.
You notice how the PuQ's in Georgia backed off of the no early voting on Sunday thing, and didn't pass the law with that in it?
They aren't morons, they knew exactly what the DoJ under Biden would do, and they know what powers they have and what tools Garland can leverage.
The most potent ones are the ones from the civil rights era. So they avoid obvious things that could run afoul of them.
IOW, my thinking is that it would be very hard to prove that limiting early voting or voter ID laws or tightening absentee ballot rules ... was done to specifically harm any particular race.
I'm not saying this to put down Garland or DoJ efforts, I think this is awesome, we need to do everything we can for sure!
However I don't have a lot of faith they'll really be able to do much to combat these new laws because I don't know that they have the legal tools to do so.
Unless of course we got the voting rights bill passed 
