McClatchy offers Politics may have played a role in voter fraud allegations in Missouri. It begins:

A voter fraud case brought by the interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., just five days before last year’s pivotal congressional elections was rejected by a Missouri prosecutor as being too weak and as inappropriate to pursue so close to the elections.
Mike Sanders, a Democrat who was Jackson County’s prosecutor at the time, declined to elaborate on his reasons for not taking the case, but noted that even if he had sought indictments, he would have been ‘incredibly reluctant’ to bring charges on the eve of balloting….
Meanwhile ousted former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias…, said he “would have been horrified” by the timing in Missouri. Asked if he believed the indictments were political, he said: “Absolutely.”

Bloomberg offers Justice Official May Revise Voter-Fraud Testimony, People Say. A snippet: “Bradley Schlozman, who as U.S. attorney in Kansas City obtained indictments charging workers for an activist group with submitting fake voter-registration forms, defended the timing of the case to the Senate Judiciary Committee this week by saying he acted ‘at the direction’ of the department’s Public Integrity Section. The explanation, which Schlozman repeated at least nine times during the June 5 hearing, infuriated public integrity lawyers, who say it implied the section ordered him to prosecute, said two Justice Department officials. Public integrity attorneys handle sensitive cases involving politicians and judges and pride themselves on staying out of political disputes.” Via TPMmuckraker.
NPR”s News and Notes offers Justice Department Under Ongoing Scrutiny, an audio report described as follows: “A former official from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division admitted this week to boasting about hiring conservative, Republican attorneys. David Goldstein, Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star and McClatchy newspapers, breaks the story down with Farai Chideya.
Meanwhile, Brad Smith and Bob Bauer question whether the allegations against FEC nominee von Spakovsky should disqualify him from serving on the FEC.
And check out this roundup on the U.S. attorneys issues from ePlurbusMedia.