NC's first Black lieutenant gov slams Dems' 'insane' voting rights efforts as 'everything to do with power'

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is the first Black person to hold his office, and in impassioned testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee, he expressed pride in Black people’s progress in the U.S., while denouncing Democrats’ opposition to Georgia’s new voting laws as "preposterous" and "insulting."

"Am I to believe that Black Americans, who have overcome the atrocities of slavery, who were victorious in the civil rights movement, and now sit in the highest levels of this government, cannot figure out how to get a free ID to secure their votes? That they need to be coddled by politicians because they don’t think we can figure out how to make our voices heard? Are you kidding me? The notion that Black people must be protected from a free ID to secure the vote is not just insane, it is insulting." The lieutenant governor went on to cast doubt on Democrats’ true motivation behind their current voting rights efforts.