A well timed message to the employees at the Justice Department from the Commander in Chief has been given.  President Obama has offered his opinion on Voter ID and ordered the Justice Department to scrutinize voter ID laws.  More at the Sacramento Bee.  Currently there are multiple voter ID laws pending before the Justice Department for approval under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  Texas inexplicably submitted their law to DOJ for approval.  This mistake may well cost Texas a voter ID law in the 2012 election because the Texas legislature does not meet often enough to cure a DOJ rejection of their law.   South Carolina also submitted their voter ID law to DOJ instead of to Federal Court.

Once DOJ objects to a law, it taints any subsequent review in federal court, and in the media.

Had President Bush ordered his Justice Department to do anything in a Section 5 (or Section 2) review, the front pages of the New York Times or Washington Post could not have contained the story.  The word “politicization” would have been a macro on the keyboard of particular biased reporters at these publications.  But no matter, new administration, new levels of press scrutiny.  These are the sorts of issues I cover in my forthcoming book, Injustice, which releases Tuesday nationwide.

I will have much much more to say about this next week as my book tour launches nationwide.  I will be in New York City and Chicago next week, but you can tune in at home.  Details will follow here shortly.  A link to the book is over there (<——-) on the left of the page.