McClatchy. Similar arguments have been made in National Review Online and in legal pleadings, with conservatives specifically criticizing the bailout expert hired by Merced County, attorney J. Gerald Hebert.
“The Department of Justice now thinks a flurry of bailouts, some of them obtained improperly, will convince the Supreme Court that Section 5 is not much of a burden and should survive,” former Justice Department official J. Christian Adams wrote last December, adding that Merced County was “ineligible for bailout.”