I previously wrote  at Pajamas Media how this week we would get some clarity whether or not Eric Holder is willing to use Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to protect all Americans from discrimination, or just some.  The Department had a chance to redeem itself and enforce provisions of Section 5 in a racially fair manner by objecting to a Section 5 submission by proven race discriminator Ike Brown.    Instead, it issued a no determination letter , and then tried to hide it from the media for over 40 hours.  Members of the media sought to obtain the “no determination” letter from the Justice Department but the Department would not turn over the public document.  So much for transparency that we heard so much about.

Then, on July 13, the Department filed a motion to expand the remedy in the US v. Ike Brown case.  Note that the prior administration had brought the case and obtained the remedy. 

My latest Pajamas Media piece deals with the whole sordid affair of the last two days and the continued unwillingness of the DOJ to enforce Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in a race neutral fashion.  I will be on a variety of radio and television stations across the country Wednesday and Thursday talking about this cop-out and the DOJ’s unwillingness to use Section 5 to protect all Americans.

Ike Brown made his Section 5 request to allow him to prevent people to vote way back on May 12, 2010.  It was not until July 1, over 4 days after my first piece in Pajamas Media appeared, before the Justice Department even contacted a single victim in Noxubee County about this matter.  I know because I have spoken with them throughout this entire affair.

Some excerpts from my latest at Pajamas Media:

“Sadly, the Department did not object to the submission and therefore refused to protect the white minority in Noxubee County in the least costly, most powerful way possible — a simple letter objecting to the proposal. Why? Because it is high heresy to include discriminated-against whites within the protections of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This attitude is common knowledge within the voting section.

Amazingly, the Department is also seeking an order from the federal court to prevent Ike Brown, the discriminator, from making any more inconvenient submissions to the Obama Justice Department which might reveal the hostility toward equal enforcement of the law. Simply put, they are asking the court to prohibit Brown from sending any more submissions under Section 5.  Not only would this go beyond the powers of the court to order, it is a naked play to avoid facing the issue of unequal enforcement for the remainder of the first, and maybe last, term of the Obama administration. If Brown can’t file submissions to the DOJ, the DOJ won’t have to take the side of the white victims. This is unnecessary and shamefully transparent.”