{"id":640617,"date":"2021-08-13T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=640617"},"modified":"2021-08-13T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:50:28","slug":"former-attorney-general-eric-holder-says-citizens-need-to-take-to-the-streets-get-arrested-over-voter-id-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-attorney-general-eric-holder-says-citizens-need-to-take-to-the-streets-get-arrested-over-voter-id-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Attorney General Eric Holder Says Citizens Need To Take To The Streets, Get Arrested Over Voter ID Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-attorney-general-eric-holder-says-citizens-need-to-take-to-the-streets-get-arrested-over-voter-id-battle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=640617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-11.22.04-AM-e1628868165786.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Attorney General Eric Holder called for people to take to the streets and protest voting laws while speaking on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cRachel Maddow Show\u201d Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower cedes nothing without a demand. We too often underestimate the power that we have as regular American citizens by marching, by protesting, by raising our voices,\u201d Holder said. \u201cIf we make our voices known, if we demand the kind of change, the fair change that we\u2019re seeking, I think it will help in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to probably move Republicans,\u201d he continued. \u201cOn the other hand, Democrats are going to have to think to themselves, \u2018do I want to be seen as the person who James Eastland\u2026those people before, who stood against the passage of Civil Rights bill\u2013do I want to have that as my legacy?\u2019 In raising the consciousness of people, by demonstrating, by getting arrested, by doing the things that ended segregation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you asked people in the 1950\u2019s, \u2018do you think marching, demonstrating is going to bring down a system of American apartheid?\u2019 You probably would have said, \u2018that\u2019s just not gonna happen.\u2019 And we should not lose faith right now. Citizens can make a change. Citizens need to be in the streets. Citizens need to be demonstrating, citizens need to be calling representatives to demand the time of change that will make this country more representative, make our democracy more fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-controlled Texas Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/12\/texas-election-bill-survives-senate-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted Thursday<\/a> to advance the election bill which Democrats have criticized as restrictions to voting rights. The <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/TX\/text\/SB1\/id\/2424492\/Texas-2021-SB1-Engrossed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill<\/a> would eliminate policies implemented during the pandemic such as drive-thru voting and overnight voting. The legislation will also require voters to show identification.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Georgia, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/bob-gibbs-buddy-carter-merrick-garland-georgia-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suing the state<\/a> over a recently passed election law that requires voter ID for absentee ballot requests and expands early voting. The DOJ argues the law is meant to suppress the votes of black Americans. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/georgia-voting-bill-absentee-voting-id-requirement-food-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Georgia\u2019S New Voting Law \u2013 Myths And Facts)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Holder also accused Republicans of cheating, claiming Republicans gerrymander districts to rig elections in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans have to cheat in order to win. So yeah, they\u2019ll try to do what they can in Texas and Georgia, Florida, North Carolina. We\u2019ll bring lawsuits if we have to do that,\u201d Holder said. \u201cIf you fight for that which is fair, if we are successful in that fight, Democrats will do as I said, just fine. We don\u2019t have to cheat. Republicans have to cheat in order to win and that\u2019s why they are in favor of partisan and racial gerrymandering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/06\/donald-trump-kentucky-mitch-mcconnell-redistricting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warned<\/a> fellow party members to be careful when it comes to redistricting, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/06\/republicans-redistricting-doom-democrats-498232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>. Strategists warn Republicans may overplay their hand when it comes to gerrymandering and it could lead to negative consequences for Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Eric Holder called for people to take to the streets and protest voting laws while speaking on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cRachel Maddow Show\u201d Thursday night.\u201cPower cedes nothing without a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}