Rick Perry: We'll take voter ID case to Supreme Court

Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday vowed to fight the Justice Department's recent decision to block a law that would have required voters in the state to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls, telling Fox News he would take the case to the country's highest judicial body.

"We'll take it to the Supreme Court," he said.

The former Republican presidential candidate argued that the law would help prevent voter fraud, and decried the Justice Department's decision as an infringement on Texas' sovereignty and a "clear violation of the 10th Amendment."

"During the testimony that was in front of the Texas legislature this last session, we had multiple cases where voter fraud was in various places across the state," Perry said. "I think any person who does not want to see fraud believes in having good, open, honest elections. Transparent. One of the ways to do that, one of the best ways to do that, is to have an identification, photo identification so that you prove who you are and you keep those elections fraud-free."

He added: "We are going to have to spend a lot of money and time defending our right to make sovereign decisions from this administration."

Democrats say there is little evidence supporting the idea that voter fraud is widespread, and argue that laws requiring voters to present photo identification disenfranchise minority voters and the poor.

The Justice Department, in its decision this week, said the Texas law was "legally unenforceable" because it failed to show "that the proposed changes have neither the purpose nor the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color or membership in a language minority group," as is legally required under Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The decision follows a similar action against a South Carolina voter ID law last year, which the Obama administration rejected on the grounds that it would have made it harder for people to participate in the political process.

Perry also cited the Obama administration's recent decision to cut off funding to a Texas program that provides health care for low-income women because the state does not give funding for clinics that provide abortions as another example of government overreach.

"They are just playing politics," Perry said

[facinfun]

......which suggest that Texas expects to lose the challenge!

[WhiteTeenDude]

Asia for Asians, Africa for Africans, White countries for everyone????????

Everybody
says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will
be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY
into White countries.

The Netherlands and Belgium are more
crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve
this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote
assimilating unquote with them.

Everybody
says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country
and ONLY White countries to "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with all
those non-Whites.

What if I said there was this RACE problem
and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of
non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black
countries?

How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not
talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to
the BLACK problem?

And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn't object to this?

But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide
against
my race, the White race, Liberals and respectable conservatives will
just say that I'm a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-White.

Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.

[alaskan_sol]

What kind of voter fraud are we protecting from and how wide spread is it? I'm aware that it happens through out the world, and can also understand how it could happen in here in Texas. But wheres the real evidence of abuse? If there's truly enough fraud that it skews results than there must be action and he should be applauded, otherwise this is nothing but political bluster from Gov. Perry diverting attention away from something he wants kept out of the spotlight.

[GollyRojer]

"They are just playing politics," Perry said. And who would know better than Rick "Hey! I'm for sale!" Perry.

[benunhappy]

another PALIN , can't fix stupid! Where do these people get thier education.Perry is an insult to the political world!

[DebbieCorona]

Maybe Perry can have their voter ID tatooed to their foreheads.

[aliasooze]

Indiana's Senator Richard Lugar hasn't lived in Indiana since the 70's yet has somehow gotten a voters registration and him and his wife have voted and he's represented Indiana all these years. Fraud? I guess ignorance is bliss. I thought you voted in the district that you lived. I suppose if you're a politician you make up the rules and act indignant when someone questions you.
Term limits are needed. These old boys need to be ousted.

[hhandyman]

Where is Perry's Photo Birth certificate to prove hes not multinational or an alien as in from Mars (before you take this seriously its how serious I take his lawsuit for the most independent state of the union. Any state that allows a loaded firearm in the seat of a car on multi-lane highway in one of the states that had a presidential assassination has a long way to go before photo id's are an honest way of proving citizenship with out discrimination.

[rhunter01]

The above comments are what you would expect of illegal aliens.
My great grandmother was born in mud a hut in Oklahoma in 1884 and had no trouble getting ID's and never drove a day in her life.

[rhunter01]

The above comments are expected of illegal alians

[devildoc68]

Only in Texas could such a pathetic person be the goven-ator...you know what they say about who comes from Texas....and YOU got Ricky!!!! lol lol lol