The Supreme Court of Ohio has upheld as constitutional the state apportionment board’s 2011 redrawing of legislative districts for the Ohio General Assembly.

In a 4-3 decision authored by Justice Terrence O’Donnell, the court based its ruling on findings that The Ohio Constitution does not mandate political neutrality in the reapportionment of legislative districts, but does require that partisan considerations cannot prevail over the nonpartisan requirements set forth in Article XI.

Link to the story.

When lawmakers convene for the 2013 Legislative Session, they’ll consider Secretary Ross Miller’s bill requiring a photo as proof of a Nevada voter’s identity. Photos would come from the Nevada DMV database. Those who lack an ID or license will take a picture at the polling place and sign an affidavit. 

Sounds reasonable.  Link to story.

 Victor Davis Hanson:

“Romney was supposedly the new Andrew Johnson who would wreck civil rights in the way the latter undermined Reconstruction. The point was not that Democrats believed any of this racialism, but that it prepped the campaign battlefield to prevent Romney, as it had prevented McCain, from running the sort of bare-knuckles campaigns that Ronald Reagan had run against Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush had run against Michael Dukakis, and George W. Bush had run against John Kerry. The fact that “Racist! Racist!” is now a broken record — Eric Holder gets into hot water over his knowledge of Fast and Furious and suddenly his auditors are racists; Susan Rice misleads the country and suddenly her critics are racists and sexists — does not mean that it does not work in deterring critics. A white liberal can all but destroy Condoleezza Rice or Alberto Gonzalez and feel very liberal, but a peep about Barack Obama or Susan Rice from a white male is akin to a KKK slur. The next Republican candidate must be ready to reply to all sorts of false charges and to make them rebound on the accusers.”

The Voting Rigths Act and CNN.

 Cary News.  Former elected official.
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 Arizona Republic

A reader with a background in national security issues sends this link about the recently appointed new head of the NAACP-LDF, Sherrilyn Ifill.  She wrote at the time:

“To call it terrorism is to deliberately press a million buttons that we know will trigger very particular, and perhaps inappropriate responses. It’s premature and irresponsible to deliberately push those buttons while the investigation into this tragedy is still in its very early stages. . . . Our most pressing concern right now should be honoring the dead and the living by safeguarding against a similar incident happening in the future. For now, that means taking a clear-eyed view of what happened and recognizing that Maj. Hasan did not commit these murders because he was Muslim — anymore that those who murder abortion doctors do it because they are Christian. He committed these murders because he’d had some kind of mental collapse that was undetected by those around him.”

Perhaps Ifill eventually amended her assessment, which I am happy to republish here if someone sends it, but I wasn’t able to find it.

A reader with a background in national security issues sends this link about the recently appointed new head of the NAACP-LDF, Sherrilyn Ifill.  She wrote at the time:

“To call it terrorism is to deliberately press a million buttons that we know will trigger very particular, and perhaps inappropriate responses. It’s premature and irresponsible to deliberately push those buttons while the investigation into this tragedy is still in its very early stages. . . . Our most pressing concern right now should be honoring the dead and the living by safeguarding against a similar incident happening in the future. For now, that means taking a clear-eyed view of what happened and recognizing that Maj. Hasan did not commit these murders because he was Muslim — anymore that those who murder abortion doctors do it because they are Christian. He committed these murders because he’d had some kind of mental collapse that was undetected by those around him.”

Perhaps Ifill eventually amended her assessment, which I am happy to republish here if someone sends it, but I wasn’t able to find it.

 Texas. Conflict.

 Texas. Conflict.