As first flagged by Gerry Hebert, the Department of Justice has submitted this filing in the long-running Texas redistricting case of Abbott v. Perez indicating it no longer believes (as the Obama Administration did) that Texas should be put back… Continue reading
WaPo:
Nine months before allegations of absentee ballot fraud tainted a congressional race in North Carolina, the state elections board gave officials from the Justice Department’s main office evidence that the political operative at the center of the scandal had… Continue reading
WaPo:
Farr worked on the 1990 campaign of Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), which came under scrutiny for distributing postcards that the Justice Department later said were sent to intimidate black voters from heading to the polls.
The postcard issue has… Continue reading
TPM:
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to delay a trial scheduled to start next week in New York over its move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
The request comes after the Supreme Court… Continue reading
TPM:
Having secured only a partial victory at the Supreme Court in blocking certain depositions and discovery in the census citizenship question case, the Justice Department is asking a federal judge in Manhattan to delay the start of trial next… Continue reading
The deposition will help sort out whether DOJ really wanted citizenship info to help bring (non-existent) Section 2 Voting Rights lawsuits or this was a pretext to give Wilbur Ross what he wanted for other nefarious reasons. Court order:
Given… Continue reading
Sam Levine for HuffPo:
A top House Republican said he was willing to subpoena one of President Donald Trump’s Justice Department appointees to appear before Congress and answer questions about the department’s controversial request to add a question about citizenship… Continue reading
BuzzFeed:
The part of the manual addressing the Justice Department’s civil rights work was revised in March. In a section discussing enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, the new version removes previous references to redistricting and racial gerrymandering.
The previous … Continue reading
NYT:
Five days after the Department of Justice announced that it would retry Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the judge in the case all but ripped out its core. Prosecutors, he said in an 53-page opinion, had failed to… Continue reading