The story below on the James Cole nomination has been updated.  Senate sources tell ELC that the nomination of James Cole to be the Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department is DEAD with the Senate going out of session and after his nomination was blocked on the floor yesterday. 

Not one news report, except in the Washington Times, reported accurately that the nomination was blocked because Texas Senator John Cornyn put a hold on the nominee. 

Kudos to Senator Cornyn for refusing to budge in the face of overwhelming pressure from all corners to lift the hold.  Senator Cornyn made the DOJ pay a price for the incompetence and bumbling of the Voting Section’s inability to aggressively enforce military voting protections in 2010.  Because of the ineptitude, James Cole will not be confirmed as the Deputy Attorney General.  Hopefully the bureaucrats responsible are held to account because of the failed nomination.  Hopefully the bureaucrats left standing learn there is a price to be paid for failing to protect military voters, both administratively and at the ballot box.