Commentary: Georgia Dem Says He’ll Refuse To Enforce Part of New Voting Law Because He Doesn’t like It

It gets clearer every day of the Biden administration that, for Democrats, the law is what they say it is.

Thanks to the misguided intervention of the commissioner of Major League Baseball, much of the country has found itself concerned with the state of Georgia’s new election law and whether it really impedes the rights of voters.

But one Peach State prosecutor doesn’t seem so concerned, since he doesn’t plan to enforce parts he doesn’t like.

But what Whiteside and other critics of the law — like President Joe Biden — fail to mention is that it specifically allows for poll officials to make “available self-service water from an unattended receptacle to an elector waiting in line to vote.”

The law also does not prohibit voters from bringing their own water, in the event voting lines are so long they might be in danger of dying of thirst before managing to cast their ballot.

The water issue is a straw man issue, easily caricatured to make Republicans look foolish, and portray Democratic voters — especially African-American Democrats — as seemingly helpless victims of a GOP machine, unable to find water to keep themselves alive without assistance, much less procure the kind of photo identification that’s a routine part of modern living.

Naturally, Whiteside had plenty of supporters in the liberal universe of social media, but some saw the problems with his leftist logic.

What this really boils down to is an officer of the court — a solicitor general in this case — making a public statement that he is going to defy the laws of his state in order to pursue a political agenda.

This is nothing new for Democrats, and it isn’t particular to Georgia. Current California Gov. Gavin Newsom got a big boost to his political profile performing gay weddings as mayor of San Francisco when they were still illegal under California law.

In fact, a 2018 San Jose Mercury-News profile  celebrated Newsom’s courage under the headline: “How a battle over same-sex marriage 14 years ago sparked Gavin Newsom’s political rise.” So, don’t be surprised if Whiteside’s name starts popping up in the years ahead.

But this is about more than politics. Whiteside’s spectacularly selective enforcement of the law — and his evident desire to make it as widely known as possible — is beyond troubling.

Liberals might celebrate his stance now, but would they take the same view of a county district attorney announcing he would not prosecute pro-life demonstrators who violated buffer zones outside abortion clinics?

However reflexively stupid MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision to move this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta to protest the Georgia law, no one can dispute his right to make it on behalf of the private organization.

What Whiteside is talking about, however, is of a different magnitude — an officer of the court refusing to follow a law because of his personal feeling that it did not satisfy his brand of “justice” (the kind that gets Democrats elected).

He is already being cheered by liberals, because for too many Democrats, the law is what they say it is. It’s how the country has a president and administration willfully flouting enforcement of the immigration laws that make the United States a sovereign country.

But the end result of that thinking is no law at all. Then what will they say?

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.