The victory over the GOP and the Wisconsin attorney general's attempt to suppress blacks and other Democratically-leaning voters for electoral purposes reveals other groups and dedicated legal staffs busily at work, literally saving our democracy from the corrupt and anti-democratic forces that reign in today's GOP.
We have come a long way from the 1960s and Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler and 1,000s of civil rights workers in Alabama and Mississippi who were threatened with their lives (many were murdered), and jail as the white power structure and the internal states' security apparatus were used in every despicable way imaginable by Senator James Eastland, the Klan and assorted racists against the nigger-loving Jews as they were known back then.
Sure, in Wisconsin today the racism and anti-Semitism are absent, the violence and physical intimidation are gone, but remaining in Van Hollen and the Wisconsin Republican Party is the contempt for the voters who insist on casting their votes and making their voices heard in our democracy.
J.B. Van Hollen and the Wisconsin Republican Party deserve the strongest condemnation and should be held accountable for their lies and actions.And let's take a look at the litigators and intervenors in the Van Hollen v. GAB et al case who rose to the defense of the Government Accountability Board and the rights of Wisconsin citizens to cast their votes, true champions of democracy who deserve recognition. We salute them today:
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Madison Teachers, Inc.
American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin
Madison Firefighters Local 311
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The Brennan Center for Justice @ NYU School of Law
The Campaign Legal Center
The League of Women Voters of WI Education Fund
American Civil Liberties Union of WI Foundation, Inc
Voting Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union
Fair Elections WI
Daniel P. Tokaji
Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP
Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association
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