Triparish Times: “The Terrebonne Parish Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People vows to file a federal suit seeking to have one seat on the 32nd Judicial District bench designated for minorities after a similar measure suffered defeat last Tuesday on the state House floor.”

Latest at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment: Taxpayer funded beer bash, ball games and scavenger hunt at DOJ.

Story here.

Miami Herald:

In the final weeks of the county mayoral race Hialeah firefighters are waging their own campaign — to educate residents about potential election fraud.

Teams of firefighters are knocking on doors and urging residents to take care of their absentee ballots in particular. They are handing out stamps to voters so that they can mail the ballots themselves.

“The message is protect the integrity of your vote,” said Mario Pico, the head of the Hialeah firefighters union, of the campaign.

The Hialeah firefighters launched their campaign in early June. Pico said the campaign was strictly nonpartisan and not political. The Metro-Dade Firefighters Local 1403 and Hialeah Association of Firefighters IAFF Local 1102 have endorsed Carlos Gimenez for county mayor. Gimenez was a fire chief in Miami before he was elected to the County Commission. Julio Robaina, the former Hialeah mayor, is also running for the top county job.

More on Dianna Duran’s referral of the serious voter roll problems to the New Mexico State Police for criminal investigation.

“New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran has identified what she says are 64,000 cases of possible voter fraud — a number that represents more than 10 percent of the people who voted in the 2010 general election in New Mexico.”

Yet what is the reaction to this potential problem from academia? 

“University of New Mexico political science professor Lonna Atkeson questioned why Duran didn’t first take the discrepancies to county clerks.”

Add this to the list of examples where public employees in the ivory tower not only don’t care about voter fraud, they seem intent on enabling it.  Why would Lonna Atkeson (photo above) oppose a criminal investigation of potential crimes?  Why does academia reflexively oppose election integrity efforts?

The sponsor of the Arizona immigration law, State Senator Russell Pearce, is facing a recall effort.  Before an election can be held, enough signatures must be gathered to put the issue to a vote.  Not surprisingly perhaps, the petitions have some curious names.  The Sonoran News:

Besides the normal findings of people signing who are not registered or registered in another district, there were some who signed who could not correctly spell their own name. That’s generally a red flag that something is amiss.

One man signed and printed his last name “Peterson” quite legibly. Due to Peterson being somewhat of a common name, it made more sense to look him up by address.

However, the address revealed the registration of a man whose last name was spelled “Pederson.”

Then there was the signature of a woman whose first name is Benita, living at 956 S. MacDonald.

Searching by address revealed three active voter registrations, one of which is on the permanent early voting list, for a woman with the first name Benita and a birth date in March 1968, under three different last names at the same single family residence.

“Eric Holder’s DOJ can’t investigate itself”

Houston Chronicle.  If Texas Democrats are confident DOJ will reject the redistricting plan, then Texas could bypass that risk by submitting the plan directly to federal court for approval.

What do reasonable lawyers do when an opposing attorney has a critically ill father during depositions?  My latest about what unreasonable lawyers do.

Human decency and professional courtesy would dictate that the lawyers merely reschedule the deposition. But King and Spalding instead filed a motion for monetary sanctions against Coates for being at his critically ill father’s bedside instead of attending a deposition!

State Paper.