Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Last week, Commonwealth Court upheld the new law that requires photo IDs. And last week, too, Corbett administration General Counsel James D. Schultz fired off a letter to Justice telling it in no uncertain terms that its behavior is out of legal bounds if not politically motivated. . . . The AG’s words and deeds give every impression that, on behalf of the Obama re-election campaign, he wants to preserve a loosey-goosey system that invites fraud and turns a blind eye to it. As Mr. Schultz might have preferred to have written: “Bring it on.”
“Attorney General Eric Holder’s race-baiting Department of Justice has been rattling the chains of the Ghost of Jim Crow Past ever since the Keystone State passed its voter identification measure. The intimation is — and one reinforced with the cudgel of a possible federal civil rights lawsuit held high — that the new law is designed to suppress minority voting.