I mean,
wow. Just wow.
I think the part that made my wince the most was
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Originally Posted by the LA Times
"Congress clearly did not intend to create a right enforceable" in court by individual voters, the Justice Department briefs said.
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I thought this was America, where we the people can sue for whatever we want, and no one, especially not the government, has the ability to stop us. That doesn't mean we will always win the case, but we are always allowed to make one. It's not a perfect system, but that's freedom for you.
Maybe it's just me, but I thought it was the voters' right and responsibility to ensure fair and due process. Now we are told that there is "no private right of action to enforce a federal statute". Ouch. I'm sorry, what country did I grow up in?
And since when was it the job of the Justice department to interpret the law anyway? That's the whole reason we have seperate sections of government. The legislative (Congress) to create the law, the executive (including the justice dept.) to enforce the law, and the judicial (hello, Supreme Court) to interpret the law.