The grand opening of former President Barack Obama’s presidential center was supposed to be a celebration of his legacy. Instead, critics are using one particular admission policy to reignite a national debate that has divided Americans for years: voter ID laws.
One Republican leader says the requirements for entering the new attraction expose what conservatives have argued all along—that obtaining identification is not the obstacle some political activists have claimed it to be.
The controversy erupted after Oklahoma Republican lieutenant governor nominee T.W. Shannon appeared on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” to discuss the newly opened Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.
