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Cornyn Response to Texas Voter ID Lawsuit from Justice Department

Statement

Date: Aug. 22, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Elections

Today U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and former Texas Attorney General, released the following statement responding to the announcement that the Obama Administration will challenge Texas' constitutional voter ID law in court:

"Facts mean little to a politicized Justice Department bent on inserting itself into the sovereign affairs of Texas and a lame-duck Administration trying to turn our state blue.

"As Texans we reject the notion that the federal government knows what's best for us. We deserve the freedom to make our own laws and we deserve not to be insulted by a Justice Department committed to scoring cheap political points."


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