Washington Post: If you think the Justice hasn’t abused its authority under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act consider the case involving former Alabama state attorney general Bill Pryor. Section 5 lawyers in 2001 demanded Pryor stop enforcing a state law that required DNA samples from prisoners as a condition for parole and for potential restoration of voting rights thereafter.”
“Another former Justice Department lawyer told me that what the left ‘is in hysterics about’ is that if Congress doesn’t come up with an acceptable new criteria for Section 4 under the Voting Rights Act (and thereby reactivates Section 5 of the act) plaintiffs can no longer rely on highly politicized voting rights attorneys in the Justice Department ‘who can shake states down behind closed doors and with no Freedom of Information Act records or public accountability.’ He explained: ‘In other words, they are going to have to actually prove their cases before a federal judge.’ They have to make their case in court. The horror of it!