Here and here, the North Carolina Attorney General and Governor are alleging that local voter ID laws being passed by counties across the state may raise state constitutional issues of uniformity and equal protection.  Some counties in North Carolina have resorted to grassroots passage of local voter ID laws in response to the veto of Governor Perdue.  Republicans need just a few Democrat legislators to support the voter ID law and override Perdue’s veto.  Thus far, it seems to be a party-line standoff.  

Both NC Attorney General Roy Cooper and Governor Bev Perdue are Democrats and apparently raising every roadblock feasible to oppose implementation of a voter ID law in the state. 

The letter from the AG’s office can be found at the link.   

@ the link, find the vote on the rule taken November 29, 2011.  To watch the hearing and find the Bill summary/status, go here. 

I will be on the always incredible Wells Report with Jon David Wells on KSKY 660 AM in Dallas Thursday at 7pm local time.  I will be discussing Project Vote, as well as Project Vote, and the associated criminal convictions and voter fraud.

More at the Daily Caller.   A couple of things today about this latest loss of cool. First, it isn’t just the Daily Caller covering the story as Holder wrongly claims.  Every corner of the media is covering it.  This sounds like something Press Harpy Schmaler at DOJ might be telling him, that it is just one or two outlets covering the story, but it isn’t.  She has a reputation of lashing out at the media, like Holder did.  (Memo to Press Harpy Schmaler: You’re blowing it Tracy.  This guy is getting clobbered on your watch.  And your catty tactics are just antagonizing outlets.) 

Secondly, blaming the Daily Caller ignores all the great work PJ Media has done on this! 

Thirdly, it seems every day more on the Hill are calling for Holder to resign.  The irony is that Holder’s resignation would do more for Obama’s reelection chances than almost anything else that could happen, apart from the worst economy in decades suddenly growing wings.  Hatred for Holder is visceral across the country.  He represents the worst and most base aspects of this administration. So if he goes, and a new, cleaned up Attorney General replaces him, it defuses a powerful weapon the GOP is going to use against Obama in the fall.  Yes, Holder is going to be a major issue in the election campaign.  Holder stepping down would undo those plans.  Those calling for his resignation (and make no mistake, he is unfit for the office) need to realize that whomever replaces him will share the same ideology that led to the Black Panther dismissal and mirandizing terrorists.   Meet the new boss…    

If Holder resigns, we will get a shiny new radical in the office, without blemish.  Of course it is a lot more fun covering and writing books about the wounded flailing Holder, but he’s a disaster for the country.

UPDATE:  A link to a slightly changed version of this post at PJ Media’s Rule of Law.

The News & Observer reports on the shower of indictments coming down on the former campaign staff of North Carolina Democrat Governor Perdue.  Three aides to Perdue’s 2008 campaign were indicted on felony charges of obstruction of justice and filing false campaign statements.  One wonders if this will impact her decision whether to run for re-election or not.

A Wake County grand jury today handed down indictments alleging that a top aide to Gov. Bev Perdue’s 2008 campaign schemed to pay a staffer $32,000 for work that was kept off the books in violation of state election laws.

The new charges, all felonies, are part of a long-running investigation into Perdue campaign activities that have focused on expenditures that would have triggered election law violations for exceeding the limit on personal donations if they had been reported. Earlier this year a retired state magistrate was charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly trying to hide an illegal campaign flight.

Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby has said that Perdue, a former lieutenant governor and state lawmaker, is not a target of the probe, but today’s indictment reached into the campaign’s inner circle. 

Politico has the Republican response:

State GOP Chairman Robin Hayes held up the indictments as proof that Perdue failed to follow through on the “fresh start” she promised voters in 2008.

“The nature of the indictments against Gov. Perdue’s campaign reminds voters of disgraced Gov. Mike Easley, an era they thought they had moved past,” said Hayes. “We’ve learned some troubling things about Perdue’s views on elections: Her campaign allegedly broke the law with campaign finance filings, she has suggested ‘suspending congressional elections’, and she doesn’t support Voter ID measures that would protect the integrity of our voting process.”

Louisiana lays down the gauntlet.  From the Pelican Post report on my speech at Tulane:

“We have a very proactive approach to the community and we do a considerable amount of outreach to make sure that everyone who wants a voter registration form gets one,” Schedler has said. “We have re-established training across the state to make sure this is getting done. But what they [DOJ attorneys] shoved in front of my face, before even telling us what the allegations are and what we are being accused of, are consent agreements that go outside of what federal law says, and would impose requirements that even a Democratic Congress would not pass. But this is not a Republican or Democratic issue. This is about fairness and logic and about overreach from Washington D.C. We will not surrender.”

Just wait until Secretary Schedler learns the details about the DOJ investigation.

 PJ Tatler.

 Roll Call.

At the link, everyone in Florida has diverging opinions on the legal enigma of “retrogression” and while trying to say the same thing, speaking a different language. 
 
The lack of any real guidance in the Voting Section’s redistricting guidelines have only added to the confusion.  This story reveals that the line drawers, experts, politicians, activists, judges, and now the general public all have a different understanding of the term.  When there is no black and white clarity in compliance standards or guidelines, retrogression can mean whatever a party subjectively wants it to mean.

What have we done to deserve this modern day Tower of Babel. 

Justice Scalia has set 4 p.m. on December, 1, 2011 as the deadline for briefs to be submitted on the state’s request for a stay of the interim state house and senate
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