A conservative think tank claims the U.S. Justice Department is overdue in turning over "potentially damaging documents" related to Attorney General Eric Holder's efforts to overturn state-level voter integrity measures.
More than five months ago, The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) requested documentation that might support Holder's claim that there is widespread concern for reversing voter identification laws in states where such laws have been enacted. General counsel Justin Danhof tells OneNewsNow his group sent a Freedom of Information Act request in April 2012.
"We just want to get to the bottom of who it was who influenced Attorney General Holder to go against common sense, to go against the Constitution, to go against Supreme Court precedent, and to go against the American people, which largely support voter ID laws," Danhof details.
He maintains that roughly 75 percent of the American population supports voter ID laws.
"So, was it Al Sharpton who talked with Attorney General Holder? Was it the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]? Was it the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union]? Was it [Nation of Islam founder] Louis Farrakhan? Maybe it was even the New Black Panther Party when he was giving them a slap on the wrist for their heinous actions outside the Philadelphia polling place in the 2008 election," the attorney suggests.
"We simply don't know who had Attorney General Holder's ear, because the Department of Justice is refusing to hand over those documents."
Regulations compel the U.S. Justice Department to fulfill legitimate requests within 20 working days.