Representative Trey Gowdy vows to get to the bottom of the South Carolina Voter ID objection. “I promise you I am going to find out of that is true or not.” The video of Gowdy vowing to find out about Chris Herren’s recommendation to preclear S.C. Voter ID is here. Gowdy say that if he doesn’t get a response to his letter, he will ask Holder at the next oversight hearing – but vows that he will get to the bottom of whether or not the Voting Section recommended to Tom Perez that the law be precleared – which it did. Gowdy doubled down Thursday on his talk of getting to the bottom of why such opposition occurred in the first place. “I understand, as Sen. Graham understands that some of the career lifetime DOJ officials advised this administration not to fight this law, but they made a political decision to fight it. I promise you I’m going to find out if that’s true or not,” Gowdy said. “If there’s anything that should not be politicized, it’s justice, so I promise you I’m going to find that out.”
Of course one way to do that is to haul Chris Herren before the House Judiciary Committee. Given that the cost to South Carolina was so high – a cost that could have been entirely avoided had Tom Perez listened to Chris Herren and Bob Berman and the other career staff – you can be sure that this one isn’t going away. There are three million reasons why South Carolina lawmakers aren’t going to rest until DOJ comes clean.
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