“Section 5 Discriminates Against Texas”
Texas SG Greg Abbott has written this oped.
Category Archives: Department of Justice
“Lawyers rejected by Justice Department notch partial win”
Justice Dept. Civil Rights Division Issues Report on 2009-12 Accomplishments
Here.
Reading it gives no inkling of turmoil in the voting section.
Update: Mother Jones: The Civil Rights Division is Kicking Butt, Says the Civil Rights Division
Coates and Adams Oped Against Tom Perez Describes Conversations with Perez
Washington Examiner OpEd by former DOJ lawyers Christopher Coates and J. Christian Adams:
Senators of both parties should be reluctant to confirm nominee Thomas E. Perez as Labor secretary because he has provided inaccurate testimony under oath.
The explosive report… Continue reading
Is Perez Nomination a Win-Win for Democrats?
That’s the suggestion of this Roll Call report.
Either Perez gets confirmed or Republicans further alienate potential Latino voters by attacking him.
Weigel: Let’s Reach Out to Swing Voters by Resurrecting the New Black Panther Case
“Justice’s Voting Rights Unit Suffers ‘Deep Ideological Polarization’ Says Watchdog”
I missed this NPR report from last week.
“The Voting Wars Within: Is the Department of Justice too biased to enforce the Voting Rights Act?”
I have written this commentary for Slate. It begins:
A long-awaited report from the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General issued last week sheds considerable light on the battles within the department’s voting section during the Bush and… Continue reading
“Thomas Perez May Not Deserve to Be Secretary of Labor, but He Deserves More Than This”
“Lawmakers Dispute Report’s Meaning for Perez”
Josh Gerstein explores whether the IG report on the DOJ voting section will affect Tom Perez’s expected nomination to be Secretary of Labor.
Did IG Conclude Obama DOJ a “Far Better Steward” of Voting Rights Section than Bush DOJ?
That’s Adam Serwer’s reading of the report, but not mine. (The issue is not whether Obama DOJ in fact was a better steward, but rather what did the IG conclude.)
Update: Adam Serwer clarifies that this is his opinion… Continue reading
“Internal Report Blasts DOJ Civil Rights Unit”
Josh Gerstein does a great job describing key points in the IG report.
Breaking: DOJ OIG Releases Report on Voting Section Controversies
You can now read A Review of the Operations of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division put out by the DOJ Office of the Inspector General. I will provide more comments when I’ve had a chance to… Continue reading
“Would GOP Filibuster Perez Too?”
Quote of the Day
“He’ll be a controversial nominee.”
—An unnamed Democratic strategist, quoted by the LA Times on the nomination of Tom Perez to be labor secretary.
Judging from this Powerline post, there could well be complaints from the right.