Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Monday that the Justice
Department would sue North Carolina over its controversial new voting
law, saying electoral measures approved by the state would discriminate
against minorities and “break a system that was working.”
At a news conference, Holder alleged that the electoral law in
North Carolina, as well as similar measures that the Justice Department is challenging in Texas,
represent a broad threat to the democratic process. In North Carolina,
he said, the law would “shrink, rather than expand, access to the
franchise.”
“Today’s action is about far more than unwarranted voter restrictions.
It is about our democracy, and who we are as a nation,” Holder said. “I
stand here to announce this lawsuit more in sorrow than in anger. It
pains me to see the voting rights of my fellow citizens negatively
impacted by actions predicated on a rationale that is tenuous at best —
and on concerns that we all know are not, in fact, real.”
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