Trump administration has thrown the weight of the Federal Government behind making it harder to vote

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/us/voting-rights-voter-id-suppression.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

WASHINGTON — A new voter ID law could shut out many Native Americans from the polls in North Dakota. A strict rule on the collection of absentee ballots in Arizona is being challenged as a form of voter suppression. And officials in Georgia are scrubbing voters from registration rolls if their details do not exactly match other records, a practice that voting rights groups say unfairly targets minority voters.

During the Obama administration, the Justice Department would often go to court to stop states from taking steps like those. But 18 months into President Trump’s term, there are signs of change: The department has launched no new efforts to roll back state restrictions on the ability to vote, and instead often sides with them.

Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the department has filed legal briefs in support of states that are resisting court orders to rein in voter ID requirements, stop aggressive purges of voter rolls and redraw political boundaries that have unfairly diluted minority voting power — all practices that were opposed under President Obama’s attorneys general.

The Sessions department’s most prominent voting-rights lawsuit so far forced Kentucky state officials last month to step up the culling from registration rolls of voters who have moved.

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“The Trump administration wants to make it harder to vote, and they’ve thrown the weight of the federal government behind that,” said Lisa M. Manheim, an associate professor and election-law scholar at the University of Washington School of Law. “It’s hard to justify some of these measures as anything but an attempt to entrench Republicans in office.”

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Whatever the Justice Department does next, conservatives said they were heartened by the new direction it has taken under Mr. Sessions.

“We’re happy with what we’ve seen done,” said Mr. Churchwell of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

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1. just...two...more...years....or....less.....

...then we will put everything back again. That should be the #1 priority for Dems Make America Trump Free

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2. Some damage will be long lasting ... he's filling the courts with nuts, lifetime appointments