New York, NY—Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III and the American Constitutional Rights Union, of which he is a member of the Board, have filed a hard-hitting amicus brief supporting Job Creators Network in their lawsuit against Major League Baseball.
The Job Creators Network (JCN) is suing Major League Baseball (MLB) to force them to reverse their decision to move the MLB All-Star game from Atlanta. MLB moved the game to protest Georgia’s new election integrity law.
The move will cause major economic consequences to the greater Atlanta community. This has led to complaints that Major League Baseball is not representing the interests of its owners as it participates in political cancel culture and appears to do the bidding of leftist activists, such as Stacey Abrams, who maintain that measures such as voter identification are racist.
As a result of MLB’s decision to suddenly leave Atlanta, Cobb County Travel and Tourism Bureau estimates that local businesses will lose more than $100 million in economic activity. MLB has been criticized by many because their decision to move the game to Denver, a less racially diverse city, disproportionately hurts Black business owners.
General Meese and American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) assert:
Since March, when Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed the Election Integrity Act to expand voting access, require voter identification and stop some practices that enable vote fraud, the Left has made every effort to associate the voting security measures with Jim Crow practices of the past, which, notably, were mostly perpetrated by Democrats.
The ACRU brief quotes:
ACRU leaders such as Secretary Blackwell and former Congressman Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, who hails from Atlanta, often point out the hypocrisy of the Left’s Jim Crow accusations. Recently, in an ACRU radio ad LTC West said, “Presenting identification to vote is the gold standard in voting all over the world. Yet some say it is racist to mandate IDs. This is insulting. They are insinuating that black people cannot get IDs. Are they questioning our intelligence? Do they think we are not full members of a society where people need an id for just about everything? It is time to stop the attacks. We should all work together to make sure it is easy to vote and hard to cheat.”
ACRU President Lori Roman stated: “Because Major League Baseball’s criticisms of Georgia’s election law are untrue and ridiculous, their action to move the All-Star Game has hurt both their corporate interests and the community they claimed to support in Georgia. Their action to move the All-Star Game should be rescinded. And this debacle should be a lesson to corporations who attempt to do the bidding of politicians. It never ends well.”
Originally published by the American Constitutional Rights Union. Republished with permission.
