Elie Mystal: Every Law Older Than 1965 Voting Rights Act Should Be Considered Presumptively Unconstitutional

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : I'm like, "All right, you want voter ID?
52% : But my argument is that if we like the law, we could pass it again.
50% : I said presumptively unconstitutional -- which is a legal dodge, I'm trying to lawyer my way around that.
49% : Like, "Get out of my face with that.
48% : We're not going to restrict my right to fish because of a thing that doesn't exist."
47% : And I promise you, the people who say no are the Republicans, are the ones who claim that voter ID is necessary to secure our election because their goal is not to secure elections, because, again, voter fraud doesn't exist -- their goal is to restrict people from voting.
42% : But my fundamental premise is that before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which I think is the most important piece of legislation ever passed in American history, this was functionally an apartheid country.
41% : So, again, if they were serious about voter ID, there is a deal on the table that we could make -- and they are the ones who don't want to make it.
33% : Republicans keep saying, "We need voter ID -- voter ID is the thing that secures our election, that protects us from voter fraud" -- and I call their bluff.

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