You knew this had to be coming. Government funded Florida radio station WMFE has corrected erroneous “election law expert” (and University of Central Florida professor of constitutional law) Derek Brett. Earlier, the radio station had reported that Brett was flummoxed by the decision of Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning to chose the option available under 42 U.S.C. 1973(b)(a) and obtain approval from neutral federal judges for election law changes. Brett wondered:
How does a federal judge do that? The only way a federal judge could do that is if Mr. Browning is able to, in some way, present some type of constitutional argument,” says Brett. He adds he’s not sure what that argument might be.
Now the radio station has backpeddled:
Contrary to analysis heard on Wednesday’s Morning Edition on WMFE, the Voting Rights Act does allow a jurisdiction to choose whether to seek that pre-clearance from the Justice Department or from a federal court.
It makes you wonder how much other false legal analysis is being reported by the media.