Meese & Blackwell: Holder's Legacy of Racial Politics
You have to have a photo ID to drive, or even to buy cough syrup. But we are supposed to believe that requiring one to vote is racist?
You have to have a photo ID to get cough syrup, but we are supposed to believe that requiring one to vote is racist. Eric Holder has peddled a message of disenfranchisement and estrangement for ugly partisan purpose, and sadly, he has helped make that message a self-fulfilling prophesy.
This piece is by two friends mine, the inestimable Ed Meese, who among many other things was co-author of a book I wrote ten years ago, and Ken Blackwell, former Ambassador and Ohio gubernatorial nominee and my Executive Vice President during my last term as NFRA President. It was an honor that he would serve with me; heck, it is an honor just to know either of them. And no one has better qualifications to speak to this issue than they. — RDM
by Edwin Meese III and Kenneth Blackwell
The Wall Street Journal
October 5, 2014
Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the…
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