Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday the Department of Justice ( DOJ) would drop the” Biden-era lawsuit that falsely accused Georgia of intentionally suppressing Black voters ‘ votes”.
” Contrary to the Biden Administration’s false promises of destruction, Black voter participation actually increased under SB 202″, Bondi said in a speech. ” Citizens deserve safe votes, not fabricated states of false voter suppression meant to separate us. Americans may be convinced that this Department of Justice will defend their ballot and not play politics with election integrity”.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB 202 into legislation in March of 2021. The policy expanded voting opportunities while adding a need for voting ID for absent ballot. The regulations set off a rush of purposefully false and incendiary claims, with then-President Joe Biden calling the policy” Jim Crow in the 21st Century”. Tried gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called the policy “blatantly illegal” and “nothing less than Jim Crow 2.0”.
As a result, the Biden DOJ issued a lawsuit alleging the policy violated Part 2 of the Voting Rights Act. As detailed by The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland, the Biden-DOJ “opened its problem by proclaiming that the Georgia government enacted the laws ‘ against the landscape of Georgia’s history of discrimination against Black Georgians.'”
The problem alleges” the Georgia General Assembly intended to dispute or abrogate the straight of Black Georgians to vote on account of race or color”.
Despite the claims, nonwhite voting participation boomed during the 2022 midterm elections. Data from the Georgia’s Secretary of State business found there were nearly 100, 000 more nonwhite voters who cast a vote during the 2022 midterm election than compared to 2018. Seventy-year-old Patsy Reid — a black lady— also told The Washington Post that she was shocked how simple it was to voting during the 2022 primaries after the remaining tried convincing her that Republicans had “deter us in any way possible” from voting.
” I had heard that they were going to try to hinder us in any way possible because of the fact that we didn’t get Republican on the last election, when Trump didn’t win”, Reid told The Post. ” To go in there and vote as quickly as I did and to be treated with the respect that I knew I deserved as an American citizen — I was truly thrown back”.
In fact, a poll conducted post-election found zero percentage of dark Georgia voters said they had a “poor” practice during the 2022 competition.
Approximately one year later, the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia struck down Democrats ‘ ask for a primary lawsuit that sought to prevent provisions of the law from taking influence after arguing the policy discriminates against black citizens. The suit alleged that provisions of the law limiting ballot drop boxes, increasing regulations around provisional ballots and tightening” the time frame in which voters can request an absentee ballot before Election Day” intentionally discriminated against black voters, as reported by The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood.
Judge J. P. Boulee ruled the Biden administration and Democrat-affiliated groups “failed to show a substantial likelihood of success on the merits as to their claims that the provisions … intentionally discriminate against black voters in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment and Section 2 of the]Voting Rights Act ]”.
Even this past election cycle voters told CNN it was far more “easy” to vote than in previous cycles.
” Last time I voted, I voted in the city, and the lines were out the door”, Corine Canada, a black woman, told CNN. ” They only had like, maybe like three people working. And so people honestly just started leaving because it was like that. Yeah, like,’ This is too long. I can’t sit here and wait, I have to go back to work.’ But here, no, it was easy”!
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
