By FoxNews
The Obama administration has once more gone too far in its "overreach,"
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Monday, after the Justice Department objected
to the state's new voter photo ID law,
On Monday, the Justice Dpartment's head of the civil rights division,
Tom Perez, sent a a six-page letter to Texas' director of elections
saying that Texas has not "sustained its burden" under Section 5 of the
Voting Rights Act to show that the new law will not have a
discriminatory effect
The DOJ has no valid reason for rejecting this important law, which
requires nothing more extensive than the type of photo identification
necessary to receive a library card or board an airplane. Their denial
is yet another example of the Obama administration's continuing and
pervasive federal overreach," Perry said.
"If citizens are required to show ID in order to open a bank account,
cash a check, drive a car or board a plane, how much more important is
it to show ID in order to exercise one of our most valuable democratic
rights?" he asked. "This is an abuse of executive authority and an
affront to the citizens of Texas. It's time for the Obama administration
to learn not to mess with Texas."
The Texas law even allows voters to show alternate forms of ID such as military ID, a U.S. citizenship
certificate, a U.S. passport or a license to carry a concealed handgun.
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