National Review Online: 

Florida has had it with the partisan manueverings of the DOJ and the state has not yet entered the redistricting review phase.  At the link.

Secretary of State Kurt Browning is challenging a constitutional requirement that a new voter law go through a “preclearance” process either through the Department of Justice or the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia.

Florida is going to court, amending their initial complaint, and now directly challenging the constitutiionality of DOJ’s “arbitrary” and apparently new “holilistic” approach to the preclearance process and a helplessly outdated coverage formula.  Add Florida to the list of states, including Arizona, Texas, South Carolina and Georgia, who are are walking with their feet to federal court and, if necessary, pray for relief at the Supreme Court. 

 PJ Tatler.

I will be on WBT-am in the 3pm hour Monday  4pm hour Tuesday.

I will be speaking at the Charleston School of Law on Wednesday.  Noon.  Charleston, South Carolina.

The esteemed Dr. Thomas Sowell on Injustice:

“Those people of good will who want to replace the racism of the past with a post-racial society have too often overlooked the fact that there are others who instead want to put racism under new management, to have reverse discrimination as racial payback for past injustices.

Attorney General Eric Holder became a key figure epitomizing the view that government’s role in racial matters was not to be an impartial dispenser of equal justice for all, but to be a racial partisan and an organ of racial payback. He has been too politically savvy to say that in so many words, but his actions have spoken far louder than any words.”

Full article here.

Alas the talking point characterizing Voter ID as a “solution in search of a problem” has finally reached Pennsylvania.

Nevada hearings can be seen/heard at the link.  Some highlights include discussion on how the Democrats fractured Hispanic populations in Las Vegas three ways in create three safe Democrat congressional seats.  The hearing also discussed how the Democrats used partisan gerrymandering to maintain artificial majorities that do not reflect statewide partisan identification.

The testimony at the hearing revealed that Nevada Democrats have built “representation unfairness” into the DNA of their proposed redistricting plans and purposefully spread Hispanics across many districts instead of allowing these communities of interest representation of their own.  In the past, Democrats maximized the partisan gerrymander of legislative seats in Nevada to allow a Democratic majority of over 60% of the legislative seats while only receiving 50% of the vote.  Democrats gamed the system to receive a majority of legislative seats despite receiving a minority of the vote. 

Now, it becomes clear why Democrats are insisting on not creating an Hispanic congressional seat and hoping the federal courts use their partisan redistricting plans that were vetoed by Governor Brian Sandoval as the baseline.  It is doubtful that the special masters appointed by a federal court would want to continue supporting a system of uncompetitive and unfair districts that fractures Hispanic populations to maintain its power.

I will be on Fox Business tonight in the 7 pm hour with Lou Dobbs to discuss Injustice.

In Nevada, redistricting positions laid out by the parties in whether Hispanic majority districts can or should be created.  Hearings are being held.

“Attorney Mark Hutchison, representing the Republican Party, argued that the Hispanic community
in central Las Vegas should form the basis for one of the four
congressional districts in any new redistricting plan.

Attorney Marc Elias, representing Democrats, argued that while communities of interest
should be considered, there is no requirement in the federal Voting
Rights Act that a predominantly Hispanic district be created.”

and more:

Attorney Daniel Stewart, representing Clark County resident Daniel
Garza, who opposed SB497, said the congressional districts in the bill
inappropriately “fractured” the Las Vegas Hispanic community into three
different districts to create three safe Democrat congressional seats.

 “This is a perfect example of what I think the masters shouldn’t do,” he said.

But Elias warned that any effort to focus exclusively on creating one
Hispanic congressional district could lead to “racial gerrymandering”
which would put any plan approved by Russell at risk for a federal court
challenge. It is not possible to draw a congressional district in Las
Vegas that would have a majority of eligible Hispanic voters, he said.