Here. The article at the link is an example of the media offensive the civil rights group push to coincide with decision points within the Department of Justice.  The groups carefully time their push with their media allies to parallel this direct lobbying of the Civil Rights Division at DOJ.  In this case, the NAACP is furiously lobbying the Perez Civil Rights Division to formally object to the South Carolina voter ID law and halt its use in the January 21, Republican presidential preference primary.

As ELC pointed out here,  Perez is going to Austin, Texas with a bit of media fanfare and civil rights groups expect to hear from him that the Voting Section will continue to dutifully ignore the Supreme Court and object to any photo ID law that comes across their desk.  South Carolina and Texas better dust off the AG offices in preparation for litigation throughout 2012.   

The Holder-Perez Civil Rights Division has not yet seen a voter ID law that would pass muster with its new holistic review and ever-evolving discrimination standards.  This despite the Supreme Court endorsing photo identification as not a burden and non-discriminatory toward voters.  Remember, Perez has told states there is no magic numeric formula to preclearance; it is simply a feeling that shifts as the winds shift.

DOJ has already delayed the process by requesting more information from South Carolina, and stand poised to object so deep into the election cycle that South Carolina won’t be able to obtain relief with the federal courts until after the 2012 Presidential Election.