Weekly Standard: ” What is interesting about Freeman’s boast isn’t just that a career civil servant considered himself entitled to indulge in, and encourage others to indulge in, some public and highly partisan incivility​—​helping to give Obama’s second inauguration quite a different tone from that of his fellow Democrat John F. Kennedy, who had declared in his 1961 Inaugural Address, “We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom.” It’s that Freeman, a 2007 graduate of Yale Law School who started working for the Justice Department in 2010, mirrors in his professional interests two of the political and ideological preoccupations of his ultimate boss, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.,

. . . It is believed by some observers that the entire South Carolina lawsuit was gratuitous; that the Voting Rights section had chosen to ignore an internal memo (which Justice has refused to release) urging preclearance of the South Carolina statute, which gave state voters a generous range of five sources of acceptable photos plus the affidavit alternative. In 2005 the Justice Department had precleared a photo-ID law in Georgia that was nearly identical to South Carolina’s. But Holder’s Civil Rights chief Perez, in a 2011 letter to South Carolina’s government, insisted that the Voting Rights Act would be violated in that state because 10 percent of South Carolina’s nonwhite voters lacked photo-identification, in contrast to 8.4 percent of white voters.“