Wall Street Journal covers the retreat.

“As preparations were made for a legal challenge to the Georgia law, it became clear that Justice had exceeded its authority. Last week, officials suddenly announced that the department would pre-clear Georgia’s law. ‘The process that has been granted pre-clearance by the DOJ is actually broader than that which was denied previously,’ said Matt Carrothers, a spokesman for Georgia’s secretary of state.

The episode shows the extent to which ideology animates the Obama Justice Department. Only when faced with a humiliating court defeat did it back down from these absurd objections.”