I will be in Miami today speaking at the Florida International University Law School at noon today.  

 McClatchy.


“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.”

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.

It may come down to Justice Kennedy.  That is bad news for DOJ and the Voting Section.  Why?

Justice Kennedy, of course – I think Spencer would agree with me – is –
we all see as the swing justice. How he’s going to rule in this, I don’t
know. I do know that it wasn’t too long ago that he actually wrote the
opinion in a case called Miller v. Johnson, which was a case that went
through and documented some of the abusive enforcement practices of the
Justice Department and, in fact, highly criticized the Justice
Department for its enforcement of Section Five in that particular case.

Via NPR.

The Democratic National Committee has no intention of repaying the
country’s largest electrical power company for the unprecedented $10
million line of credit it guaranteed to help a local host committee fund
last September’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.  According to an article on the Washington Times
web site, an official for Duke Energy said the company would claim the
money as a business expense for tax purposes, meaning shareholders will
foot $6 million of the cost.  The amount of the loan and the secrecy surrounding it has raised red flags for government watchdog groups.   Link to Newsmax

Link.

Nebraska Secretary of State offers some recommendations on the regulation of nursing home and hospital voters. 

So says the 2005 Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform via the Tampa Bay Times.  That is a lot of suppressing and oppression.

 Washington Times.

Stateline has this report on the Shelby case.

 PJ Media.

“ELECTIONS: These are like the Teen Choice Awards: the coolest and most popular wins. Democrats always win because they are cool and popular. Republicans are more like your weird friend’s parents.”