Justice Department Prepares for the Demise of Federal Oversight of Southern Elections
This week, DOJ Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez ran a closed-door meeting with all of the Voting Section staff at the Justice Department. Perez called the meeting to discuss the increasingly likely demise of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which allows federal oversight of southern elections. (See the full coverage map here.)
Perez articulated how the political appointees, including Eric Holder, intend to handle a loss in the case brought by Shelby County, Alabama, challenging Section 5 federal oversight. The case will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next month. If Shelby wins, Section 5 obligations may go away for all or some of the covered jurisdictions.
Sources knowlegable with the content of the discussions told PJ Media that Perez assured Justice Department attorneys and analysts who enforce Section 5 that he intends to pivot the duties and responsibilities of the analysts from Section 5 review to Section 2 enforcement litigation. Perez was described as “resigned” to the demise of Section 5, though he exhibited “superficial confidence.”
Tom Perez
Section 2 is the provision of the Voting Rights Act that allows private plaintiffs and the DOJ to bring cases as a plaintiff where discrimination in voting is alleged. Under Section 5, states and local jurisdictions must act as plaintiffs, sue the DOJ, and carry the burden of proof.
Perez’s reorienting of Department resources toward Section 2 is ironic, to say the least. The last Section 2 case filed by the Holder Justice Department was brought in March 2009, almost four years ago. In fact, that case was initiated by the Bush Justice Department.
Full disclosure: I brought it.
The fact that the Obama administration has a moribund Section 2 record is ironic, because candidate Obama campaigned against the Bush DOJ’s Section 2 enforcement record — a record that with four years of Obama-era hindsight far surpasses that of the Holder-run DOJ. Activists like Wade Henderson of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights complained about the Bush Section 2 record, but have been noticeably silent about the dismal Section 2 record of the Holder/Perez era.
At least Henderson has kept quiet. Left-wing election law professors like Stanford’s Pam Karlan have brazenly published false scholarship about the Bush DOJ Section 2 record. She made false claims in a Duke Law School law review article: the Bush administration brought no Section 2 cases over a five-year span; and the first one they did bring was against black defendants. Both false. This phony scholarship has yet to be corrected, and not a single one of Karlan’s fellow-traveler election law professors have called her out.
Senate Republicans should pay attention to her phony scholarship, given that Karlan has been mentioned repeatedly as a candidate for the federal bench.
Stanford Law Professor Pam Karlan
I suggest the House propose expanding the coverage of the law to ALL states.
At that point, Obama can either argue against allowing the law to be used in all juridictions, or meekly accept that all states should be treated equally.
It would also be interesting to see which congress critters from blue states start howling the loudest.
Election fraud was comitted in conjunction with the 1975 VRA, Section 5 and PL94-117. The fraud was comitted in California, New Mexico, Michigan, Pensylvania and other states. The counties, in California, where the vote alteration fraud was comitted in 2012 are:
Alameda, Amadore, Contra Costa, Eldorado, Fresno, Imperial, Kerns, Kings, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare and Ventura. These counties wrere where the vote was physiclly altered. Many additional counties had mail in voter fraud, but no alteration to the actual ballots cast. Please ask me how it was done? I would love to spend 10 hours explaining it.
We have no power if our vote does not count. There is nothing that can be done if the people in power know they, or the people sustaining their ideals will never be voted out. We are powerless if the voting fraud cuntinues. Romney won the 2012 elections and I have legally defendable proof of it, but no one cares. Over the last two months, several times,I have sent limited evidence of this fact, but no one ever responds. The details and proof reside in the written words I have from those who did it, and the 100GB of voting data, SOE software files and output files that prove it was done. Who will ask for the proof of it? Who will let me show them what was done? Who will do something about it? I cannot do it on my own.
I am certain that you are correct,and I don’t know why no one will take this cause up. I believe that people are afraid to do so. Had Allen West been successful, things might have changed. The all-powerful media, constantly back the the admin. doesn’t help. I too, see what happened. I see where this is headed and I am so disappointed in the ‘new’ media for not following through with the fraud claims. I feel helpless too.
The greater danger of election fraud is now in the North, but it’s the kind of fraud DOJ loves best.
Amen.
Step 1) Dems try to make all-black districts. I wonder why? Is having black members so important, in itself? Are they really guaranteed Democrats, with no brain to think for themselves? HOW RACIST!
Step 2) Stupid Republicans who imagine themselves crafty and sharp, realize that it will give them four or five safe Republican districts for each black one, once they have been expunged of poor, radical blacks, so they go along with it.
Step 3) Now that there are all-black districts, there is NO control on the integrity of the vote in those sections. There are NO whites/republicans to watch the store. Results start looking ridiculous, as, surely there must be ONE ornery, or plain stupid black person , who voted for Romney accidentally.
Step 4) Armed with black districts voting results that look like Chavez, Putin, or Mugabe managed the tally, the outraged Republicans say they will shut down the government until this voter fraud is cleaned up, and both the Voting Rights Act and Motor Voter are repealled, and we all vote, once again, on the same day, no matter what!! One man, one vote! Ain’t that what they always say?
Oh! Sorry! I was having a pleasant dream.
REAL step 4) Nothing happened. It’s all a coincidence. These are NOT the Droids you seek. All the shenanigans that DOJ has been pulling for the last year and more, and all the strange things that were seen on election day (week? Month?) have no meaning. All is on the up-and-up. Those dead people you found on your rolls can be removed from the register…just as soon as the election is over.
Now, think upon it: why is it that Obama and Senators did so well while reps didn’t change very much? Because one cannot overwhelm voting by district. One can only provide a superfluous number of illegal votes to affect state elections. Even local elections were really Republican in their results. State legislators are more Republican than they’ve ever been.
Illegal Mexicans do the same job in the West as Blacks do in the middle and eastern sections. THEY are untouchable. WE have no rights.
Prof. Fate: I think we’re DROWNING!
The Great Leslie: We can’t be. The readings from the gages I planted say we will stay afloat for at least another week. It’s just simple math. There’s no need to mention it to the others.
Prof. Fate: Well, when the water reaches my lower lip, I’M SURE GONNA MENTION IT TO SOMEBODY!!!!
I sense moisture at my chin, so I guess we’ve nothing to worry about…
YET!
I’ve been called a Cassandra and worry-wart my whole life.
I’ve only been called a genius the last ten or so, because what I predicted thirty years ago is now hot on our heels, and much or it has come to pass already.
There is a distinct lack of information around, now more than ever. Noone will even discuss the very things that are bringing us down by the minute.
Mr J: Go read Mr Adams’ book Injustice. This is the tip of an old, large iceburg.
The democrats have a way to go before they catch the republicans in voter or election fraud
And this is why I’m against every single law passed by the federal government – it’s impossible to get their hands off once they get a single finger on an issue. Sure, some federal laws have good effects, but I’m convinced that in the balance, federal involvement is a negative.
“And this is why I’m against every single law passed by the federal government….”
Rarely do we see wingnuttiness in such pure form.
You might want to add this word to your vocabulary. Our schools, thanks to the teacher’s unions, are turning our lettered illiterates. That think they are ‘liberal’.
hyperbole |hīˈpərbəlē|
noun
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
DERIVATIVES
hyperbolical |ˌhīpərˈbälikəl| adjective
hyperbolically |ˌhīpərˈbälik(ə)lē| adverb
hyperbolism |-ˌlizəm| noun
ORIGIN late Middle English : via Latin from Greek huperbolē (see hyperbola ).
should read: “…… lettered illiterates that think they are ‘liberal’.”
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Roberts scheduled a case by attorney Orly Taitz dealing with Barack Hussein Obama’s use of forged IDs to be heard in conference before the full Supreme Court. The case titled Noonan, Judd, MacLeran, Taitz v Bowen provides a mountain of evidence of Barack Obama using a last name not legally his, forged Selective Service application, forged long form and short form birth certificate and a Connecticut Social Security number 042-68-4425 which was never assigned to him according to E-Verify and SSNVS. Additionally, this case provides evidence of around one and a half million invalid voter registrations in the state of California alone.
Does this mean that the Second Reconstruction of the Southern States is over or that the Third Reconstruction is just beginning?
We should bear in mind that the Several States lost the inherent Constitutional right to challenge the Federal government on issues of national import with the Civil War. States became no longer bound by a common good, but held together by the force of the mightier ones over the lesser ones. States, we need to keep in mind, in the beginning assumed they had the same individual rights as its citizens. Washington was restrained, individual states could flourish as they willed.
This ‘conflict’ was visited on many occasions in the halls of Congress and among the states before the actual outbreak of hostilities.
Section 5? Section 2? I’d be happy if DOJ just did its job and protected us Americans from voter fraud so we can elect the people we want in office. With Eric at the wheel, I’ll not hold my breath.
With the Republicans trying to redistric areas of texas and florida not getting it right thats not good. Oh unless you are a repub