Recently, attorneys for the Democratic National Committee asked the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a ruling that would jeopardize the existence of nearly every election integrity measure in America.
Their request specifically targets a pair of popular election laws in Arizona that have been on the books for years. The first law requires voters to vote in their correct precinct, and the second law bans partisan political operatives from collecting and delivering ballots, a dubious practice known as “ballot harvesting” that is either outlawed or limited in a large number of states. The case is Brnovich v. DNC, and Democrats’ ultimate goal is to weaponize a key part of the Voting Rights Act. They want to turn the law into a blank check for liberal judges to strike down any law they simply do not like. To hear the DNC tell it, these two common-sense regulations are Jim Crow reincarnate. The actual Jim Crow regime, the series of early and mid-20th century laws passed to deny black Americans the opportunity to vote, is an indelible stain on our national conscience. Many of the most pernicious Jim Crow laws, such as literacy tests or poll taxes, undeniably targeted and disenfranchised huge numbers of black voters. Congress took action to address these laws by passing the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
