Texas Kicks Ass - Again

... but you won't hear about it from the mainstream lamestream media.

Texas is suing the U.S. 'Justice' Department over the DOJ's blocking implementation of the Texas Voter ID law.

In a nutshell, the Texas state legislature passed a law requiring voters to show a valid government ID (driver's license, passport, military ID, etc.) in order to vote. obama's Department of (In)Justice halted enactment of the law, claiming it would violate the 1965 voting rights law by discriminating against minorities, students, and the elderly.

Final arguments in the case were heard today by a federal court in Washington D.C.

What you won't here form the mainstream media is how thoroughly Texas demolished the DOJ's case.

The key piece of evidence presented by the feds was a list of 1.5 million Texans who don't have the government issued photo i.d. required to vote. The list was prepared by  Stephen Ansolabehere, a Harvard professor (that should tell you something right there).

The Justice Department presented what it said was evidence that as many as 1.5 million Texans don't have the government issued photo i.d. required to vote, but Attorney General Greg Abbott says of the people on that roll, 50,000 are dead, 330,000 are over the age of 65 and can vote by mail, where a photo i.d. is not required, and more than 800,000 are on the list improperly.

Among the people who the DOJ listed as 'lacking the required documentation needed to vote' are Former President George W. Bush and at least two members of the state legislature.

Close to one-third of the people on the DOJ list are dead or not impacted by the law? The former President of the United States and state legislators don't have photo id's? Kind of makes you wonder about the list's validity.

"George Walker Bush," Adam Mortara, a lawyer for Texas, read from the list of supposedly ineligible voters in the study. "The former president."

Testifying as an expert witness during the trial, Ansolabehere acknowledged Bush was on the list but could not explain why he might be ineligible.

D'oh.

In fact, University of Texas students conducted a telephone survey of random people on the DOJ's list of people who allegedly don't have the documents required to vote, and found that more than 90% of them, including 93% of African Americans and 92% of Hispanics on the list, actually have a photo i.d.

Which brings us to Victoria Rodriguez.  The San Antonio teenager was the only individual in a flurry of 'experts' the Department of Justice called to the stand to represent the 1.5 million allegedly set to be disenfranchised under the Texas law.  Rodriguez testified that she not only lacks a photo i.d., but lacks the documentation need to obtain one, and State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer said requiring her to pay to obtain those documents would amount to an illegal 'poll tax.'  Under cross examination, Rodriguez admitted that she has a birth certificate, a voter registration card, and a Social Security Card, and only two of those three forms of i.d. are required to obtain a free voter i.d. card offered by the DPS.  Rodriguez testified that she 'doesn't have time' to go the DPS office to obtain the voter i.d. card, but she testified she had plenty of time to fly more than 1500 miles to Baltimore, catch a train to Washington DC, and sit for hours in a federal courtroom to testify about how unfair the Texas voter i.d. law is.

If you think that's bad, keep reading (emphasis added).

Another Department of Justice 'expert' testified that the Legislature 'intended' to discriminate against minorities when it passed the Voter I.D. bill.  But J. Morgan Kousser's comments under cross examination show he knows little to nothing about the Texas Legislature ... (and) said the U.S. Supreme Court ruling which upheld a similar voter i.d. law in Indiana ... was written so the (Justices) could 'promote white supremacy.'

Kousser also claimed in a book that Republicans are 'not legitimate representatives' of minority communities, and that any African American or Hispanic who supports voter i.d. 'has been manipulated and misled by Republicans.

In fact, Kousser admitted that he got many of the 'facts' used to buttress these bizarre claims from Wikipedia...

This is the best the feds can do? An ignorant, racist, 'expert' witness? In any reasonable and impartial court the feds case would be laughed out of the room.

The three judge federal appeals court panel, which includes two Democrats and one Republican, will issue its ruling on the case in the coming weeks, and the ruling will certainly be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Read the above paragraph again. It shows the problem with the U.S. judicial system. Rather than appoint the most qualified people available as judges, we instead choose them on the basis of whether they are democrats or republicans. That's not rule of law: it's rule of political party.

I have little faith in the judicial system. After the obamacare ruling debacle, I have no faith in the ability of the Supreme Court to reach a reasonable decision based on both the facts and the law. But who knows, they just might get this one right.

Even a blind dog finds a bone every once in a while...