“It has become clear that even well-intentioned critics of the law simply have no idea what the law is,” the community leaders wrote in their letter to the senators.
“It is clear they have no idea how favorably Georgia’s new law compares with most other states—including President Biden’s home state of Delaware. And it is clear they have no idea that a majority of black voters across the country support the key provision under attack by critics—the simple requirement that voters be able to identify themselves when voting. This is the same simple requirement needed to pick up baseball tickets or board a plane,” the letter continued.
President Joe Biden and his administration grilled the recent Georgia voting policy as a discriminatory attempt to suppress votes.
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“The Georgia voting law—like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country—is a blatant attack on the right to vote, the Constitution, and good conscience. It’s Jim Crow in the 21st Century—and it must end,” wrote Biden in a March 26 Twitter post. The White House did not return a request for comment on the president’s remarks on Georgia’s new voting laws.
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“Instead, critics of the law have substituted passion for reason, hysteria for judgment,” the leaders wrote to Send. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). “They have launched a despicable smear campaign against supporters of the law and economic reprisals against the state of Georgia—punishing the very people they claim to champion. They have tarred with the brush of racism people whose only sin is a desire for confidence in our elections.”
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The letter was sent the same day the Democrat-led Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing called: “The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote.” The meeting discusses state legislatures proposing and passing new voting laws, which Democrats are ordering an assault on voting rights and Republicans are saying secure the voting process.
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Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) presented an affidavit before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and called the comparison of Georgia’s new voter law to Jim Crow laws “outrageous.”
“But as someone who’s actually experienced Jim Crow laws, I like to set the record straight on the myths regarding the recently passed Georgia State law, and why any comparison between this law and Jim Crow is absolutely outrageous.”
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