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The Supreme Court has rejected the ACLU appeal of a Circuit Court decision upholding the Georgia Voter ID law. This law requires new voters to present documentation to show they are both citizens and residents. The ACLU attacked this law, and similar laws in other states, claiming that such laws discriminated against the poor and persons of color.
Most of the facts for this article, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article in the Atlanta Constitution on 9 June 2009. The article reports that the US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals which upheld Georgia's voter ID law. In short, that law required new voters in Georgia to present photo ID when voting, and presenting specified documents to show that they are citizens of the US and of Georgia, to obtain those IDs.
The ACLU has fought long and hard in both state and federal courts in Georgia to prevent this law from going into effect, claiming that the law "discriminated" against the poor, and persons of color. They even had the nerve to say that this law discriminated against Mexicans because the vast majority of those denied the right to vote in Georgia because they were not citizens, were Mexicans.
This will probably contribute to the defeat of ACLU cases against similar laws in other states, where the legislatures have reached the conclusion that methods should be employed to assure that only Americans vote in American elections. Only a few states have considered such laws to date.
Now this organization is supposed to be The AMERICAN Civil Liberties Union, isn't it ?
Every American citizen should prove who they are to vote. Driver license, state ID, rent receipt, utility payment..both rich and poor, white and persons of color can easily obtain those. How in the world can the ACLU say not proving who you are is discriminatory against poor and persons of color ?
Why don't they just come out and change their name to the Illegal Immigrant Civil Liberties Union ?
Now this organization is supposed to be The AMERICAN Civil Liberties Union, isn't it ?
Every American citizen should prove who they are to vote. Driver license, state ID, rent receipt, utility payment..both rich and poor, white and persons of color can easily obtain those. How in the world can the ACLU say not proving who you are is discriminatory against poor and persons of color ?
Why don't they just come out and change their name to the Illegal Immigrant Civil Liberties Union ?
Maybe they like the other definition of American better, as someone who is born in America (North and South America)
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Main Entry:1Amer·i·can Pronunciation:\ə-ˈmer-ə-kən, -ˈmər-, -ˈme-rə-\ Function:noun Date:15681 : an American Indian of North America or South America
2 : a native or inhabitant of North America or South America
3 : a citizen of the United States
4 :american english
Location: Where laws can be ignored due to political correctness
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The ACLU has fought long and hard in both state and federal courts in Georgia to prevent this law from going into effect, claiming that the law "discriminated" against the poor, and persons of color. They even had the nerve to say that this law discriminated against Mexicans because the vast majority of those denied the right to vote in Georgia because they were not citizens, were Mexicans.
What a sad attempt to use the ethnic card in this case.
It's amazing how low the ACLU will stoop these days.
They even had the nerve to say that this law discriminated against Mexicans because the vast majority of those denied the right to vote in Georgia because they were not citizens, were Mexicans.
Seriously? Your kidding... Right?
Are they really that stupid to even think that is a reason?
Talk about tugging at strings!!
This is like... NO DUH!!
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