Wausau Daily Herald: harmful

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel keeps the drum beating

Voter ID cost is certain in Wisconsin.

Protesters interrupt Voter ID hearing.

Accountability Board troubled by bill.

And don’t miss this cartoon against Voter ID.

Indiana voters with questions for the Secretary of State instead reached a “stimulating conversation” line complete with “hot girls.”  Typos in an agency press release caused the problem.

“Legislation to allow New Jersey voters to request mail-in ballots for all future general elections is headed to the governor’s desk..”  Full story.

Here at ENC.com.  The report states:

“When Mooppan said the lawyer for the Justice Department seemed to argue that Nix could have avoided his injury simply by running as a Democrat or a Republican, Tatel suggested that there might be “constitutional problems” with forcing people to give up their state-created right not to affiliate with a political party they do not want to represent.”

And in a deliciously ironic line, the story notes:

“An official with the U.S. Department of Justice declined comment Monday when contacted by The Free Press.”

“The Mexican American Legislative Caucus asked a federal judge to order the Texas Legislature to draw political boundaries based on the assumption that there are more Hispanics living in the state than the Census shows.”

Reuters

Austin American Statesman

The James Cole nomination for Deputy Attorney General has been languishing for almost a year.  It was covered here the last time his nomination failed on the floor of the Senate in December.  It happened again on May 9.  50-40, the Senate could not get cloture and his confirmation appears less likely than ever.  First it was military voting, then terror trials, and now it is Senator Grassley not getting the answers he wants from a stonewalling DOJ over project gunrunner.

More here.

Las Vegas Sun. 

In a continuation of the national non-conversation on race, the Washington Examiner explores high-stakes redistricting manuevering in Missouri and how the mainstream media universally ignored the real story – how the interests of minority groups and the Democratic Party dramatically diverged on race.  The result was the override of a Democratic Governor’s veto of a redistricting plan by a coalition of Republican and Black legislators.