Dems Want To Wield The DOJ Against Election Laws They Hate
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The Democrat Party platform calls for the Department of Justice to intervene in elections across the country, supposedly in the interest of “voting rights.” The party released its platform Sunday, ahead of the already-contentious Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It boasts the Department of Justice has “more than doubled” staff to enforce so-called “voting rights laws.” The document also calls for passage of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, which, as Jonatahan Tobin previously explained in The Federalist, would “allow the federal government to intervene anywhere in the country...