Al Sharpton emerged from the White House after briefing the President, Attorney General, and Hillary Clinton.  He confirmed that the Department of Justice would attempt to regain preclearance authority under the Voting Rights Act against those states with new voter ID laws.

“It was one meeting – it was unprecedented – the attorney general and the president in the Roosevelt Room of the White House,” Sharpton began.  “I talked to the attorney general for an hour and the president for 40 minutes.”

Clearly unprecedented.  The President must be weaker politically than anyone realizes, acting as if a primary is on the horizon, and not the unifying leader of all the people in a triumphant second term. Sharpton and the MSNBC lefties certainly have the ear of the President and the Attorney General.  Meanwhile, the Supreme Court rulings on the constitutionality of voter ID in Crawford, the outdated formula for the Voting Rights Act, and the positive opinion of voter ID by a large majority of Americans are ignored and called “Jim Crow” supporters.