This video simply must be seen to be believed.  This is the Atlanta version of the “Occupy Wall Street Movement” (aka Crash the Air and Space Museum Movement).  “Senator [sic] Lewis” gets chased off by a crowd of crackpots and their weird cult-like methods.  Had the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s and 60s been this far out of the mainstream, or even out of the normal way of speaking, it would have gone absolutely nowhere.  If you do nothing else today, click the video link.

You can get a free chapter of the new bestseller Injustice at this link.

Some apologists for DOJ have told the media how much faster and easier it is for states to submit plans to DOJ for approval under Section 5.  They do this to create political pressure against the other option, going straight to court for approval.  These folks know that the DOJ process is more politicized than is a federal court process.  Texas in this pleading provides lots more reasons why it is better to go to federal court than to DOJ.

At this Heritage forum.

At the link, once again we see another state, this time South Carolina, go to the U.S. District Court for an objective analysis of its senate redistricting plans rather than put up with the ridiculous questions and black maximation policies of the partisan lawyers in the Voting Section. 

“State Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell has announced the S.C. Senate will file a complaint with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking a declaration that the State Senate Redistricting Plan conforms to the requirements of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act…In a letter the agency sent to the Senate on Monday, the Justice Department asks about District 17 which now serves voters in Chester, Fairfield, Union and York counties. The American Civil Liberties Union had argued that the district could be drawn with a black majority. But the Senate rejected that argument”

Apparently, the Feds (that would be left wing attorneys in the DOJ Voting Section) had questions on one senate district in the South Carolina State Senate plan.  It just so happens their concerns were related to the very same district where the ACLU wanted to force a new black majority district.  What a coincidence! It also appears that DOJ is “inconsistently” using black maximation policies rather than the proper retrogression analysis under the law.  Even more concerning is that the black maximation analysis is only rolled out depending on who is proposing the lines.  With so many states opting for court, DOJ has become just another party in a lawsuit, certainly not the final word in redistricting. It is apparent with Georgia and South Carolina going to court, that absolutely none of the states who deal with DOJ on voting issues actually believe the attorneys in the Voting Section are following the law or being objective in their analysis. Their actions indicate they almost uniformly believe the Voting Section is simply carrying water for the Obama WH and DCCC.

Another state bypassess DOJ lawyers.

I will be on the Dennis Miller show Friday in the 10 am hour (EDT) to talk about Injustice.

Audio from the voter fraud event featuring John Fund and Catherine Englebrecht.

I will be speaking to the Federalist Society at the University of Chicago School of Law on Friday about the Justice Department and the dismissal of the New Black Panther Voter Intimidation case.  Noon.  University of Chicago Law School.

 Quin Hillyer:

A courageous man and civil rights hero, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, died yesterday. This was the sort of man who the likes of Jack Kemp would have wanted to be leaders in the Republican Party. When he started working for justice, black people couldn’t sit at the same diner counter as whites. He lived long enough to see a black man in the Oval Office. Never mind that it is not the right man: The changes in the United States that made such a thing possible represent a triumph for Shuttlesworth, whose life was threatened so many times while he tried to make it happen.