{"id":8413,"date":"2012-10-16T15:36:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2017-11-02T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:44:20","slug":"holders-justice-department-refuses-to-release-potentially-damaging-documents-shedding-light-on-the-possible-politicization-of-voter-id-legal-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2012\/10\/16\/holders-justice-department-refuses-to-release-potentially-damaging-documents-shedding-light-on-the-possible-politicization-of-voter-id-legal-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder’s Justice Department Refuses to Release Potentially Damaging Documents Shedding Light on the Possible Politicization of Voter ID Legal Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"
Obama Administration Mission to Stamp Out State-Level Voter ID Laws Fails Judicial Test, While Voter ID Ruled Constitutional by Federal Court<\/p>\n National Center Request for Source of Holder’s Alleged Motivation Withheld In Defiance of Federal Law <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Washington, D.C.<\/em> – The U.S. Department of Justice is 158 days (exactly 5 months and 5 days) late in turning over potentially damaging documents in response to a National Center for Public Policy Research Freedom of Information Act request related to Attorney General Eric Holder’s seemingly-obsessive desire to overturn state-level voter integrity measures in the face of logic and Supreme Court precedent.<\/span><\/p>\n “Four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that state-level voter ID laws are a commonsense, constitutional way for states to protect their citizens from voter fraud. Almost immediately upon being appointed, Attorney General Eric Holder set out on a mission to squash voter ID laws by claiming that they are somehow racist – a mission that has bordered on the absurd and delusional,” said National Center General Counsel Justin Danhof, Esq.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n “DOJ officials claim that the National Center’s information request presents ‘unusual circumstances’ and that they need additional time to reply. Holder claims he communicated with droves of Americans who complained that their voting rights were under assault from voter ID laws. We want to see those communications,” said Danhof. “What is unusual and complex about that?”<\/span><\/p>\n