After the civil war through the 1960’s, the Democratic Party was solely responsible for blocking black Americans right to vote. This is not a political statement. It is historic record. They did so under the auspices of Jim Crow laws which allowed arresting blacks for the smallest of crimes to be incarcerated to hard labor, never to be allowed to vote, thus using the courts to perpetuate a form of slavery.These laws began to be deconstructed with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, although Democrats opposed these reforms at all levels of government well into the 1970s. Now the Democrats have ripped a page from this playbook and are applying it across all races based on political belief.
On December 29th’s Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor and Newsmax Legal Analyst Alan Dershowitz stated that only Congress, not the states, can decide whether a presidential candidate is eligible under the 14th Amendment. He said the framers of the 14th Amendment would not have placed the legal power of deciding who could be on the presidential ballot to former Confederate states, and instead vested that power in Congress. He said, “The 14th Amendment provides in Section 5 that Congress, not the states, Congress can enforce this provision.” Dershowitz said that Republican reconstructionists wrote the 14th Amendment and purposely gave the power to Congress.
Dershowitz said, “They would never have left the decision [on] who can run for president to South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, and Alabama, members of the Confederacy. Of course, they left it only to Congress. The idea that states, one at a time, can decide who’s disqualified is the most absurd reading of a constitutional provision I have ever seen. The idea that a secretary of state, whether appointed, anointed, or elected, a secretary of state can decide who the next president’s going to be, what could be more undemocratic than that? That’s what Putin would do. That’s what Stalin did. That’s what the heads of banana republics in South America did. That’s what China, that’s what Iran does.”
What Dercshowitz could have said is “That’s what the Democratic Party does.” They’ve been doing it for over a century and pointing the finger at everyone else, especially Republicans. They keep claiming that Republicans are the ones who want to suppress the vote. But, in reality, the Democrats are weaponizing the court system, just like they did during the Jim Crow era, to prevent people from voting for someone they don’t want in office. This time, however, it’s not targeting a race, but rather an entire political belief aimed at anyone who is not a Democrat. In Matthew 12:26, Christ says, “If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself.” Point being, you can’t advocate voter rights by destroying voter rights.
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