Barack Obama, Divider-in-Chief

When it comes to dividing people with smooth-sounding lies, few excel at it more than Barack Obama. It isn't a stretch to think of him as America's Divider-in-chief. While campaigning for Terry McAuliffe, Obama said "All across the country, Democrats are trying to make it easier to vote, not make it harder to vote, and push back on Republicans who are trying to systematically prevent ordinary citizens from making their voices heard. You have to ask yourself, why is it Republicans don't want you to vote?"

This summer, the Supreme Court ruled in the case titled Brnovich v. DNC. In their ruling, the Supreme Court said "Arizona law generally makes it very easy to vote. Voters may cast their ballots on election day in person at a traditional precinct or a 'voting center' in their county of residence. Arizonans also may cast an 'early ballot' by mail up to 27 days before an election and they also may vote in person at an early voting location in each county. These cases involve challenges under §2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) to aspects of the State’s regulations governing precinct-based election day voting and early mail-in voting. First, Arizonans who vote in person on election day in a county that uses the precinct system must vote in the precinct to which they are assigned based on their address. If a voter votes in the wrong precinct, the vote is not counted. Second, for Arizonans who vote early by mail, Arizona House Bill 2023 (HB 2023) makes it a crime for any person other than a postal worker, an elections official, or a voter’s caregiver, family member, or household member to knowingly collect an early ballot—either before or after it has been completed." This is the key part:

The Democratic National Committee and certain affiliates filed suit, alleging that both the State’s refusal to count ballots cast in the wrong precinct and its ballot-collection restriction had an adverse and disparate effect on the State’s American Indian, Hispanic, and African-American citizens in violation of §2 of the VRA. Additionally, they alleged that the ballot-collection restriction was "enacted with discriminatory intent" and thus violated both §2 of the VRA and the Fifteenth Amendment.

The District Court rejected all of the plaintiffs’ claims. The court found that the out-of-precinct policy had no “meaningfully disparate impact” on minority voters’ opportunities to elect representatives of their choice. Turning to the ballot-collection restriction, the court found that it was unlikely to cause "a meaningful inequality" in minority voters’ electoral opportunities and that it had not been enacted with discriminatory intent.

That's legalese for saying the plaintiffs are full of it. The Arizona law that the DNC challenged is virtually identical to the Georgia and Texas laws that were passed this year. It's worth noting that the Arizona law was passed and challenged in 2016. Finally, there's this:

The Court mentions several important circumstances but does not attempt to compile an exhaustive list. The size of the burden imposed by a challenged voting rule is highly relevant. Voting necessarily requires some effort and compliance with some rules; thus, the concept of a voting system that is "equally open" and that furnishes equal "opportunity" to cast a ballot must tolerate the "usual burdens of voting." Crawford v. Marion County Election Bd., 553 U. S. 181, 198. Mere inconvenience is insufficient.

In short, it takes effort to vote. Apparently, Mr. Obama thinks that that's an attempt to "systematically prevent ordinary citizens from" voting. The Supreme Court consistently keeps ruling otherwise. In most of these cases, including Crawford v. Marion County Election Board of Elections in 2008, there was a 6-3 majority opinion.

During his campaign speech, Obama referred to CRT as "phoney, trumped up charges":

Sadly, Mr. Obama is an expert at dividing people with dishonesty and straw man arguments. Unfortunately, he loves hearing the sound of his own voice too much. Obama will always have a say with Democrats. We The People shouldn't pay attention to him, though. We can't control Democrats' actions. We definitely can control whether we'll pay attention to an over-the-hill windbag like Obama.