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Print this article Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock appear together at a campaign rally ahead of Senate runoff elections, Augusta, Ga., January 4, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) To hear Democrats talk, SB 202, the new voting and elections law in Georgia, “makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle,” as Joe Biden put it, also calling it “Jim Crow on steroids.” Stacey Abrams calls it “a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie.” Jon Ossoff: “We must defeat the new Jim Crow.” Raphael Warnock: “We are witnessing right now a massive and unabash...

As Democrats increasingly brandish the Jim Crow comparison in the fight over state and national election laws, critics — including Black conservatives — are challenging the narrative, saying it trivializes the era’s horrific abuses by likening them to standard identification requirements used for everything from boarding an airplane to buying beer. “Comparing absentee ballot changes and ID requirements to banning Black people from restaurants and drinking fountains is absurd,” Mr. Lancaster said in an email. Wilfred Reilly, associate political science professor at Kentucky State Uni...

President Joe Biden has commented that all the Republican efforts have made “Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.” A history of suppressing the poor But the truth is that Republicans have been trying to dress Jim Crow up like an Eagle Scout for half a century. What happened in Georgia wasn’t so much a return to some dark past as it was an unveiling of how far Jim Crow’s heirs have been able to extend the reach of his tactics in a nation that likes to imagine that it left racism behind with the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Former HUD secretary reacts to lawmakers comparing Georgia's election law to Jim Crow on 'The Story' Former Housing & Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson said Tuesday that it was "disgusting" to hear Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., compare Georgia's new election law to South African Apartheid of the mid-20th Century on "The Story." In remarks during an cable news interview, Omar praised calls to boycott the Peach State, saying that in the case of Apartheid -- which ran from roughly 1948 to 1991 -- the segregationist and institutionally racist policies against the country's Black population w...

Chris Christie: Biden ‘lying' about Georgia election law Print this article Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie accused President Joe Biden of "lying" about what is in the recently passed Georgia voting law. During a panel on ABC's This Week on Sunday, Christie said Biden has “broken his own rule” about stating the truth. The Republican, who briefly ran for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 cycle, said Biden is “lying to the American people” about the law. “He’s lying about this bill, he’s lying to the American people about it to cause the raging fire he s...