Operation Eagle Eye (United States)

Not to be confused with NATO's 1999 Operation Eagle Eye.

Operation Eagle Eye was a 1964 Republican Party national voter suppression operation which used vote caging against minority voters. Through the employment of literacy tests, oral demands to interpret the United States Constitution and detailed questions about a potential voter's origins and how long the potential voter had been in the United States, Republican workers would challenge minority voters, especially those with broken English. William Rehnquist, later chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is said to have been the head of a group of lawyers hoping to challenge voters in minority Democratic precincts.

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