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(1/4) NEW: Wisconsin Republicans filed an unhinged amicus brief urging a court to force the state to hand the DOJ its complete voter rolls. But it wasn’t a typical filing. Instead, it was a culture war-addled screed complete with segregation-era parallels, anti-immigrant panic and attacks.

democracydocket.comIn unhinged brief, Wisconsin GOP compares not giving the Trump DOJ voters' personal data to Jim CrowThe Wisconsin GOP delivered a culture war-addled screed complete with typographical errors, segregation-era comparisons, anti-immigrant panic and ad hominem attacks.
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(2/4) Instead of leading with sober legal analysis, the 27-page brief opened with a quote from a “self-help” author that implied defending voters’ privacy is an admission of guilt:

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(3/4) It then portrays the state’s refusal to hand over the sensitive data as the modern equivalent of how Southern states attempted to prevent Black people from voting during the Jim Crow era:

Julianne Wingate
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FORCED BIRTH Wealth transfer to the rich Inequality Authoritarianism Voter Suppression CUT MEDICARE Terrorism Insurrection GUN VIOLENCE END SOCIAL SECURITY Dirty Air and Water Destroying Planet Pandemics RACISM Misogyny War Theocracy NO PLATFORM ..DEAD PARTY...GOPDead

Captain Willard
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Let's hope an entire generation does. Its incredible to me that the US public trust the GOP more with the economy than the Dems when long historical evidence shows the exact opposite is the case. Why is that?