Texas Dems Demand DOJ Probe Into Paxton’s Raids

September 1, 2024 Republicans, Trump Lies

The Texas Tribune reports:

A group of Democratic state lawmakers on Friday asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate potential violations of federal law and civil and voting rights related to Texas state leaders’ recent voter roll purge, raids of Latinos’ homes in connection to alleged election fraud, probing of voter registration organizations and ongoing scrutiny of groups that work with migrants.

“Collectively, these actions have a disproportionate impact on Latinos and other communities of color, which is sowing fear and will suppress voting,” twelve Texas senators wrote in the letter. “We urge the DOJ to investigate Texas and to take all necessary action to protect the fundamental rights of all Texans and ensure all citizens’ freedom to vote is unencumbered.”

The League of United Latin American Citizens, a large Latino civil rights organization founded in 1929, made a similar plea to the feds earlier this week.

Read the full article. As previously reported, Paxton’s raids stem from a claim made by Fox host Maria Bartiromo, who says that a friend of a friend’s wife saw “illegals” being registered to vote outside a driver’s license bureau. Local Republican officials immediately debunked Bartiromo’s claim, pointing out that the town she cited doesn’t even have a driver’s license bureau, but Bartiromo has continued to make the claim on her show.



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