FOXNews.com: Holder tells NAACP Texas voter ID law 'harmful' to minorities

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Holder tells NAACP Texas voter ID law 'harmful' to minorities Jul 10th 2012, 16:35 Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday reinforced his opposition to Texas' new voter ID law, saying during an NAACP convention in Houston that it hurts minorities and that politics is the driving force behind the issue. Holder called Texas the "center of our national debate" on voting-rights issues and vowed the Justice Department would "aggressively" fight to enforce those rights. "We will not allow political pretext to disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious rights," he said. Holder delivered his remarks on the second day of a federal trial in Washington, D.C., regarding the 2011 law passed by the Republican-led Texas Legislature that requires voters to show photo identification at polling stations, an effort to prevent voter fraud. "I don't know what will happen as this case moves forward," Holder said. "But I can assure you that the Justice Department's efforts to uphold and enforce voting rights will remain aggressive." He also said the agency found the law "would be harmful to minority voters." Holder said the arc of American history has always moved toward expanding the electorate and that "we will simply not allow this era to be the beginning of the reversal of that historic progress." The attorney general spoke at the 103rd convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which is launching a battle against new state voter ID laws. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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