By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-12 14:52:00 | Updated at 2025-01-12 19:15:12
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‘Meritless’: In Its Dying Days, Biden DOJ Sues GOP-Led City Council For Not Being … Hispanic Enough
Daily Caller ^ | 11 Jan, 2024 | Hudson Crozier
Posted on 01/12/2025 6:50:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
A Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit alleges that Hazleton, Pennsylvania’s city council elections violate federal law because not enough “Hispanic-preferred candidates” are winning – without defining what a Hispanic-preferred candidate is.
The DOJ sued the majority-Hispanic town Tuesday over its at-large election system in which voters across Hazelton vote to elect each district’s city council member, alleging it does not give Hispanics a fair chance at participation and violates a section of the Voting Rights Act that bans restricting voters based on race. The complaint fails to prove illegal discrimination and appears “meritless” on its face, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“What the complaint fails entirely to address is that Hispanic candidates are losing races not because of their race, but due to politics — if they run as Democrats, they are going to lose,” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former counsel for the DOJ, told the DCNF.
He helped the agency enforce the Voting Rights Act under the Bush administration.
“In the 2023 election for the city’s mayor, the incumbent Republican, Jeff Cusat, won in a landslide with 61% of the vote,” von Spakovsky said. “The Democratic Hispanic who ran against him, Vianney Castro, received only 28% of the vote.”
TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism
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1 posted on 01/12/2025 6:50:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
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