Tonight I will be on the Roger Hedgecock show nationwide in the 7pm hour EST to discuss my book Injustice, Eric Holder’s attack on state election integrity laws and the Justice Department.

Thanks for all the emails.  Yes, Drudge had my quote on the Drudge Report for most of the day regarding the True the Vote rally in Austin. 

Link to story here.

Rep. Allen West’s response?  “Here Eric Holder goes again.”

So says Ray Hartwell at PJMedia.

On the heels of these experiences, just this week I received an urgent email message from the “Director for Voter Protection” of the Democratic National Committee.

If Judicial Watch is investigating, DOJ should be worried. 

Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it obtained records detailing communications between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Estelle Rogers, a former ACORN attorney currently serving as Director of Advocacy for the ACORN-connected organization Project Vote. (Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 11-1497)). Judicial Watch is investigating the DOJ’s partnering with Project Vote on a national campaign to use the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) to register more individuals on public assistance, widely considered a key voting demographic for the Obama 2012 campaign. President Obama previously worked for Project Vote.

here is the link to the entire release.

Newsmax reports:

Holder was greeted by around 100 protesters when he turned up at the symbolically important Lyndon Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 which allows the federal government to interfere in state voting laws if they would disproportionately deter minority groups from voting.

The conservative protesters, who had traveled from all over Texas, waved signs calling for Holder’s impeachment or indictment. They claimed there is no need for government interference on voting. One of them, former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams told Fox News, “He’s announcing war on Texas tonight.”

The attorney general said he was concerned about measures that tended “to restrict in ways that are subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, the ability of the American people to cast their ballots.” He said protecting access to the voting process “must be viewed not only as a legal issue but as a moral imperative.”

And in a thinly veiled attack on Republicans, Holder said he was calling on political parties “to resist the temptation to suppress certain votes in the hope of attaining electoral success and, instead, achieve success by appealing to more voters.”

and this:

Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation told the Post that Holder’s stance is based on “ideology and politics,” saying that courts have found voter ID laws in both Georgia and Indiana to be nondiscriminatory.

“Georgia’s law has been in place for five years,” added von Spakovsky, a Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration. “Not only did the turnout for African Americans not go down, it went up.”

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Here is the headline out of Texas:  Obama’s AG to attack Texas voter ID law

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder plans to make news tonight in Texas.  The Washington Post is reporting that Holder has chosen the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin as the site of a speech “expressing concerns about the voter-identification laws, along with a Texas redistricting plan before the Supreme Court that fails to take into account the state’s burgeoning Hispanic population.”

Expect to see an unhealthy arrogance coming out of Holder’s Austin speech that informs the American public that the Department of Justice is not satisfied with simply enforcing the current law on voter ID and redistricting under the Voting Rights Act (VRA).  Rather, the Department of Justice is intent on resisting the precedent of the Supreme Court on photo ID and application of Section 5 and stretching the outer limits of interpretation of existing statutes. 

Here.  Analyze this blurb from this recent article:

The ACLU, the ACLU of Wisconsin and National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty filed the complaint on behalf of state residents who may not be able to vote under the law. 

Note the speculation in the language: “on behalf of state residents who may not be able to vote.”  There is only rank speculation in this complaint and no actual evidence of anyone not being able to register to vote, obtain adequate photo identification, much less cast a vote.

Update below on the Pennsylvania photo ID bill.  If this becomes law, this is a big deal in making photo ID uniform across the country. 

A state Senate panel this morning tweaked a measure to require all voters to show photo identification at the polls.

The amended legislation now would allow for university ID cards and those issued by nursing-home-type facilities to be accepted, and would require more information from those seeking an absentee ballot. It passed the Senate State Governmental Committee on a 6-5 vote.

and: Today’s changes also would require those seeking an absentee ballot to provide either their driver’s license number or last four digits of their Social Security number on the request form to prove their identity, and would allow driver’s licenses that expired within a year to still be an accepted ID.

If the measure is approved by early next year, poll workers during the April primary would ask for photo identification, but those without would still be able to cast a ballot. The law would go into full effect for the November general election.

Full story here.

Here.