Breaking: Pam Karlan to DOJ
Huge news from Jeffrey Toobin: “Confirmed by DOJ: Noted voting rights expert and Stanford prof Pamela Karlan to join Obama admin as Dep Asst AG for voting rights. #scotus”
MORE from Josh Gerstein.
Category Archives: Department of Justice
Voting Makes List of Top Performance Challenges at DOJ in 2013
From the OIG:
The non-ideological, non-partisan enforcement of law is fundamental to the public’s trust in the Department. Yet in a recent report assessing how the enforcement priorities of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division have changed… Continue reading
“North Carolina Shows Why Voting Rights Act Still Needed”
Ari Berman:
A federal judge in Winston-Salem today set the schedule for a trial challenging North Carolina’s sweeping new voter restrictions. There will be a hearing on whether to grant a preliminary injunction in July 2014 and a… Continue reading
Judicial Watch Brings Out Big Guns in North Carolina Voting Challenge
Former DOJ voting section lawyers Robert Popper and Chris Coates are leading a team trying to intervene against DOJ in the North Carolina Voting Rights Act lawsuit.
“Challengers of new NC voting regulations want 2014 trial; state officials push for delay”
News & Observer:
Parties who are a gulf apart over what laws should be in place to ensure fair and open elections are just as widely divided about how quickly a lawsuit challenging new voter laws should be heard… Continue reading
“State of Texas moves to dismiss voter ID litigation”
Texas Redistricting sums it up. (motion)
AG Holder Speaks Out About Voting Rights
BLT:
“This whole notion of voter fraud and the need to come up with photo ID to combat voter fraud is really a solution that’s in search of a problem,” Holder said today.
Holder said there’s “no empirical evidence… Continue reading
Fight in LA County Over Whether to Create Second Latino Sup. District; DOJ Uninterested
“Eric Holder’s 2014 Racial Politics: The Attorney General tries to reverse a Supreme Court ruling by the back door.”
“Eric Holder’s Big Voting-Rights Gamble”
Abby Rapoport writes for TAP.
“Hard Fight Seen for DOJ Against N.C. Voting Restrictions”
Question About DOJ Complaint Against North Carolina
I’m wondering why the DOJ did not raise a constitutional claim in its complaint against both early voting and the wrong precinct provisional balloting issue. There were two important 6th circuit cases just before the 2012 elections coming out of… Continue reading