Cruz Fires Back At Blumenthal After 'Partisan Diatribe' Accusation

district court here in washington dc where those judges will apply the exact same well-established standards to carefully evaluate the specifics of that law thank you i should make the point by the way that i would support certain voter id laws depending on how they are framed written what their impact and effect are and what their intent is going through that kind of analysis senator corner yeah actually if i can briefly mr chairman you said in your remarks that that my my questions were a partisan diatribe and and i do want to briefly point out i just want to quote from the united states supreme court justice stevens opinion for the majority for six justices where he described laws preventing voter fraud as quote protecting public confidence in the integrity of the electoral process which has independent significance because it encourages citizen participation in the democratic process as the carter baker report observed and here the court quotes from democratic president jimmy carter and republican secretary of state james baker quote the electoral system cannot inspire public confidence if no safeguard exists to determine to deter or detect fraud or to confirm the identity of voters so apparently the views of president jimmy carter the views of a six justice majority of the supreme court are deemed by some members of this this committee to be simply a partisan diatribe and and and if that's the case i would ask the chairman you you talked about the laws in connecticut why is it that connecticut has lower african-american registration and lower african-american turnout than georgia and mississippi you know uh i'm really not here to debate you mr cruz i subscribe to justice stevens opinion and to the views of former president carter a distinguished southerner and i'm going to turn to another distinguished southerner senator cornyn that speaks volumes i uh i want to start by congratulating you mr chairman in the state of connecticut for joining 44 other states that allow early in-person voting including texas i think that's important texas now i think provides up to 17 days of early voting anybody who's qualified to vote can vote in texas and let me

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Published: Wed Sep 22 2021