"A national campaign to disenfranchise voters will receive a national response"

By GottaLaff

I've been all over the disenfranchisement/caging efforts of the Republican party, including the DNC/Obama lawsuit against the Michigan G.O.P. and Greg Palast's warnings.

Via a longtime reader of TPM (an excerpt):

The court is more likely to rule narrowly than to recognize those claims in its decision. But by intervening directly in a local case, the Obama campaign is signaling that a national campaign to disenfranchise voters will receive a national response. And by reframing a technical debate over local election laws as a broader discussion of fundamental rights, the Obama campaign has already won. The GOP has long employed the chimerical notion of "voter fraud," and preyed upon unpopular groups like students, non-Anglophone Americans and ex-felons. But they made a strategic miscalculation by going after homeowners suffering foreclosures. And by linking this effort at disenfranchisement to the others, the Obama campaign is going to make them pay.

We must never tolerate attempts at voter suppression. Now Obama's team is doing something about it. That's called leadership.

(The filing is here.)

H/t: I don't remember, but thank you!