Arizona Republic on New Black Panther dismissal

Arizona’s largest newspaper opines on Sunday:

“But where law in the United States is concerned, policies that prop up group victimization as a reason to apply laws differently simply invite contempt for the law itself. . . .



But, then, we learned that unequal application of the law wasn’t something unique to this case. We learned it is the accepted if unwritten policy of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department that violations of voting rights are never pursued against minority defendants. And, suddenly, all the potatoes got really, really big.”



 

Catherine Engelbrecht and True the Vote: “How much vote fraud is ok?”

Congratulations to Houston’s True the Vote and Mark Antill and Catherine Englebrecht of True the Vote.  They won the extremely prestigious Ronald Reagan Award at CPAC 2011 for their efforts to combat voter fraud.  I’ve written about them and their upcoming National Summit in March here at Pajamas.  An interview with Catherine Englebrecht after she won the Reagan award is here.

FL Governor has them “tearing their hair out”

New York Post on Rick Scott’s quirky and creative refusal to submit the new redistricting panel to DOJ for preclearance.   Suppose he next files in United States District Court for preclearance.  He would still control the timetable as the plaintiff to some extent.   One might imagine scheduling conferences taking place weeks later, nice slow discovery, on and on it might go.