Another author at Heritage lays out why the Department of Justice simply got the analysis wrong on the deminimus burden placed on voters with regards to acquiring free voter IDs as well as the recent insistence by the Holder DOJ for actual voter fraud evidence where none was required by the Supreme Court.  

The Justice Department’s lawsuit against South Carolina has rekindled political war over state voter identification laws. While the merits of the suit will surely be hashed out in the political arena, the Supreme Court has in fact weighed in on the constitutional arguments offered by opponents of voter ID laws, and found them wanting.

In light of the issue’s prevalence, it’s worth revisiting that decision to see what the nation’s highest court had to say about voter ID laws.

Opponents of those laws usually make a pair of arguments against them: they claim the laws impose overly burdensome restrictions on voting, and that they are a solution in search of a problem, given the relatively low incidence of voter fraud. Neither of those arguments stands up to the Supreme Court’s thorough examination of the issue.

Full story at the link

Nice play of words in the Chicago Tribune.  Below is a snippet:

There are two African Americans representing South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, One is Tim Scott, a freshman Republican. The other is 10-term Rep. James Clyburn, the current assistant Democratic leader. There are numerous minority members of the S.C. state legislature and Governor Nikki Haley who is Indian-American.

This is not your grandfather’s South Carolina. This is not the South Carolina of the then-segregationist and Dixiecrat presidential candidate Strom Thurmond. Yesterday’s South Carolina had segregated schools, lunch counters, restrooms and buses and a dominant Democratic Party. Today’s South Carolina is a modern, integrated, forward-looking, dual-party state.

Day two of the vigil waiting for the Attorney General Abbott’s withdrawal of the Texas voter ID submission followed by a prompt complaint filed with a 3 judge panel…found this worrisome article from PajamasMedia. 

The article quotes a source inside DOJ close to the review process who claims that Texas Attorney General Abbott is blowing the voter ID issue.  Not sure what to make of it but DOJ and Texas are playing mind games with each other.  After the South Carolina objection, Texas should be talking with its feet all the way to Court.

I truly hope there is a strategy other than:


 

 
 

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Achieving parity with the Democrats in campaign spending would be no small feat. Yet it appears possible.

The full story at the Wall Street Journal here.

When the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it was approving Georgia’s new House, Senate and Congressional district maps, it was the first time ever that all three Georgia maps had been “pre-cleared” on the first try.

“I am proud to say that this year was the first time Republicans ever controlled the redistricting process and both the process and the product were very different than anything Georgia has seen before,” said former state senator Mitch Seabaugh, R-Sharpsburg. Seabaugh, now deputy state treasurer, served as chairman of the Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee this summer.

full story here.

Some interesting Patterico Pontifications.

The vigil starts tonight as America waits for Texas Attorney General Abbott to promptly withdraw the Texas photo ID law from administrative review of the Holder Department of Justice and allow the courts to decide the issue. 

When will he give the signal and refuse to allow the games DOJ played with South Carolina. 

Who says you have to take the first punch by giving DOJ a chance to do the right thing.  

We are waiting on leadership… and the press release.

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Find the complaint here

Here.  The complaint can be found here.