Reviewing the Resumes: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section
As a local government attorney who represents a general registrar in Virginia, I share Mr. Adams’ concerns about the Obama Justice Department. Having said that, I’m happy to report that if Virginia is any indication, things might not be as bad as we feared.
The Virginia General Assembly and Virginia localities had to complete their redistricting plans this spring in order to be ready for summer primaries and November general elections for state and local offices. To my knowledge, we all submitted our plans to DOJ for approval (the compressed time frame in which we had to act gave us little choice, as DOJ must act on our submissions much more quickly than the Court is likely to), and all of those plans have been approved, including the contentious state plan for General Assembly districts. The state still has to complete its redistricting for congressional districts, so I guess there is still some concern that DOJ could play games with that submission, but at least to date, DOJ has not played political games with Virginia’s redistricting submissions.
