Here.  “This warning from the attorney general is ill-conceived, ill-timed, and I think a terrible mistake,” says diGenova, a prominent Republican commentator.

“At a time when we’re trying to do everything we can to identify who is in the country, why they are in the country, and what they are doing, it is so fundamentally simple to want to assure ourselves that the people who are voting in elections are citizens and have the right to vote,” diGenova says.

and: DiGenova says Holder has been injecting himself into the political process, raising questions about the impartiality of the Justice Department.

“The department is known historically for being above the fray and enforcing the law,” diGenova says. “I think it [Holder’s statement about law requiring photo ID] looks political, which is very bad for the attorney general particularly in light of everything that is going on around him,” diGenova notes, referring to Holder’s conflicting statements about when he knew about the Fast and Furious operation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

“It creates a patina of political interference,” diGenova says. “It makes it appear that their cases may be politically motivated.”

DiGenova says Holder is accusing states of misconduct simply because they want “to ensure that the votes that are going to occur are not going to be fraudulent.” DiGenova calls his position “absolutely absurd.”

“This is about states wanting to ensure that the people who show up at the ballot box live in the district, are American citizens, and have the right to vote and that they haven’t voted someplace else on the same day,” diGenova says.