The Georgia complaint tries to stitch together some fairly thin evidence of intent. It cites an unidentified random caller making racist remarks about Raphael Warnock. It invokes an anti-Semitic flier about Jon Ossoff, which has nothing to do with the case, since nothing in SB 202 is alleged to discriminate against Jewish voters. It warms over some grievances from Stacey Abrams in 2018. It tries to bootstrap the protests and opposition of black Democratic lawmakers into proof of what the supporters of the bill believed. It complains about the procedures used to pass the bill, such as the lack of a “fiscal note” purportedly required for legislation with a budgetary impact. The Eleventh Circuit rejected a similar complaint about the use of cloture motions in its 14th Amendment analysis of the Alabama voter-ID law. And, of course, there are digressions about the “Stop the Steal” movement, Dominion voting machine conspiracies, threats to jail Governor Kemp, and complaints that some Georgia legislators backed the Texas v. Pennsylvania lawsuit — darkly humorous things to put in a complaint that named Brad Raffensperger as a defendant and attacks a law signed by Kemp. The United States Department of Justice is supposed to be better than this.