Bad Reporting at MSNBC on Voting and Holder

I read this amusing and incomplete Holder line at an MSNBC story on the DOJ’s Texas Voter ID litigation:

“Thanks to the hard work of our Civil Rights Division, we are continuing to refine and re-focus current enforcement efforts across the country,” he said. “And while the suits we’ve filed in Texas mark the first voting rights enforcement actions the Justice Department has taken since the Supreme Court ruling, they will not be the last.”

Really?  If the Attorney General was being wholly forthright, he would have noted:

And while the suits we’ve filed in Texas mark the first voting rights enforcement actions the Justice Department has taken since MARCH 2009!

March 2009 is when the Justice Department filed the last Section 2 case.  For more, read “Wade Henderson, Cat Got Your Tongue?”

No matter.  MSNBC isn’t in the business of rooting out half-truths from the Justice Department.  That task recently has fallen to United States District Court Judge Kurt Englehardt.