Ed Whelan, former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel and General Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee has this to say at Bench Memos about the Bailout Boomerang:

“In order to bolster Section 5 against the constitutional challenge pending against it in the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder, the Department of Justice is illegally supporting legally deficient bailout requests by two townships and eight towns in New Hampshire and by California’s Merced County—and even making false representations in court.  . . .  As von Spakovsky sums it up, “The Justice Department is trying to create evidence that it can use in its effort to manipulate the Supreme Court in the Shelby case.”

If a Republican administration did something comparable to what von Spakovsky and Adams document, it would be a national scandal, with lots of front-page newspaper coverage.”

Ed Whelan, former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel and General Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee has this to say at Bench Memos about the Bailout Boomerang:

“In order to bolster Section 5 against the constitutional challenge pending against it in the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder, the Department of Justice is illegally supporting legally deficient bailout requests by two townships and eight towns in New Hampshire and by California’s Merced County—and even making false representations in court.  . . .  As von Spakovsky sums it up, “The Justice Department is trying to create evidence that it can use in its effort to manipulate the Supreme Court in the Shelby case.”

If a Republican administration did something comparable to what von Spakovsky and Adams document, it would be a national scandal, with lots of front-page newspaper coverage.”