Missouri House passes voter ID.  Stltoday.com has more.

“’This is nothing better than a Jim Crow law,’ said Rep. Jeff Roorda , D-Barnhart. ‘This is not 1950s America. This is 2010 and it’s embarrassing that we’re drudging up all this ugliness from our past.’”

Story here.   “The state Justice Department announced Friday that Correy Grady faces one count of felony election fraud. He could get up to three years and six months in prison and $10,000 in fines if he’s convicted.

According to a criminal complaint, Grady, now 33, was convicted in 2006 of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, both felonies. He was on probation when he voted in 2008.”

Someone should let Ricardo Pimentel know.

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She’s back.  Washington Post Morning Bits. “The lead Justice Department attorney in the FDNY case is Loretta King, who ordered the dismissal of most voter-intimidation charges against Black Panthers in Philadelphia and who is hip-deep in other race-based legal controversies.”   Full story.

Dallas County Justice of the peace Carlos Medrano is under investigation for voter fraud.  Dallas Morning News has more.   Medrano is accused of getting two non-residents to vote for him.  Medrano won the election by 150 votes.

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has much to say.   Former Attorney General Mukasey was viewed by almost everyone as a fair honest dealer. He brought integrity to DOJ, now integrity is lacking.  As I noted in this BigGovernment article, Holder interfered in the investigations to the New Black Panther dismissals by offering his opinion there was nothing there to investigate.

“Mukasey is flabbergasted that the attorney general would declare in a New York Times interview that in effect ‘there is nothing to see.’ Mukasey says, ‘I can’t see how he would bring himself to say such a thing. There are investigations pending’—by the Justice Department’s inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility. The case against the New Black Panthers for intimidating voters at a Philadelphia precinct in 2008 was already won when Holder’s team ordered the charges dropped; famed civil rights attorney Bartle Bull deemed it ‘the most blatant form of voter intimidation I’ve ever seen.’ Says Mukasey, with a measure of indignation, ‘It seems to me you don’t whitewash such a thing.'”

WFTV.com  has the story.

PJ Tatler has the story  about some odd discoveries on Capitol Hill.

Some history from Earl Hutchinson.

“The Reagan assault on civil rights was so intense that the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in 1982 issued a lengthy report that meticulously documented the measures the Reagan Administration Justice Department and especially its Civil Rights Division did to stymie and obstruct enforcement of civil rights laws.”

Here is a story about the current Civil Rights Division from the Washington Examiner.  No word if the LCCR is working on a report about the enforcement of these voting laws.

Colorado citizenship verification is  “a solution in search of a problem.”

Wisconsin Voter ID a “solution in search of a problem”  too.

It seems Texas Voter ID is also a “solution in search of a problem.”

Same in Mississippi where Voter ID is “a solution in search of a problem.”

Of course in Minnesota, Voter ID is “a solution in search of a problem.”