HERE’S WHY: Conservatives SHOULD NOT Support Ben Carson Anymore, In Ben’s Own Words
Ben Carson just proved to conservatives why they should not be voting for him after he expressed his support for the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. J. Christian Adams explains exactly why below:
Not a single constitutional conservative should support Ben Carson anymore First against #voterid, then Sharpton. http://t.co/Ppi8XXsJPp
— J. Christian Adams (@ElectionLawCtr) October 9, 2015
This is precisely what the racial-interest groups and the Democrats want — giving an attorney general like Eric Holder revived power to block state election laws by edict, as they did to Texas and South Carolina voter ID and citizenship verification in Florida and Georgia.
To recap, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 forced 16 states to obtain federal approval for every election law change no matter how big or how small. When a polling placed moved from a school library to a school gym, Washington, D.C., had to approve. The Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 ruled that such federal oversight upset the constitutional balance by using circumstances from 50 years ago to justify federal intrusion into state power, and the Court extinguished the oversight.
Since then, the institutional left has sought to reassert federal power because it helps Democrats win elections. For example, prior to the 2012 Presidential race, the Justice Department stopped Florida from checking for noncitizens on the rolls. In 2009, the DOJ blocked Kinston, North Carolina, from having non partisan elections because, as the DOJ said, if the word “Democrat” is not next to the name of the candidate, black voters won’t know for whom to vote.
This is the madness that Carson is open to resurrecting.
Here is Carson elaborating on it in an interview:
