Aug 16, 2011 – Last week, PJMedia published the first three of a series of articles highlighting the new career attorneys hired into the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. The first two articles focused on the Voting Section; the third article focused on the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices....

Aug 22, 2011 – For the last two weeks, PJMedia has been publishing a series of articles on the radical attorneys who have been hired as career civil servants in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division since President Obama took office. The reports reveal an unprecedented effort by Attorney General Eric Holder and his...

Aug 19, 2011 – Last week Pajamas Media reported on the liberal ideologues hired in the Special Litigation Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.  This week provided a good example of how they can force local and state authorities to waste lots of taxpayer dollars and land the Department in a lot...

Sep 8, 2011 – For those of you interested in seeing the latest fireworks in the debate about new state voter ID laws, tune in this afternoon at 2:00 at Senator Durbin is holding a hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights on “New State Voting Laws:...

Sep 20, 2022 – The Justice Department has hit the Eagle Forum of Alabama with a voluminous subpoena that violates the organization’s First Amendment rights to speak freely, engage in the political process, and talk to their elected representatives. It’s an intimidation tactic, pure and simple, and shows just how partisan the department has...

Jul 21, 2021 – I was on a long road trip several weeks ago, and Neil Young’s classic rock ballad “Southern Man” came on the radio. For those who don’t know this 1970 song or its history, Neil Young wrote it about the civil rights movement in the South, although a lot of Southerners...

Oct 4, 2017 – Parents, want to avoid having your kids unjustly accused of sexual assault? You might want to think twice before sending them to the University of Colorado and the University of Cincinnati. Colorado’s refusal to rescind its Obama-era guidelines that deny students basic due process rights and impose kangaroo courts should...

Feb 12, 2018 – A criminal referral on Christopher Steele by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), sent on Jan. 4 to the Justice Department and the FBI, is now declassified — and it helps corroborate the claims in the Nunes FISA memo. Grassley and Graham want Steele investigated for providing...

Apr 16, 2018 – Did Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) really have to threaten to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in contempt and to start impeachment proceedings? Apparently so. Nunes chairs the House Intelligence Committee. For almost eight months, Wray and Rosenstein stalled his request for an unredacted...

Mar 25, 2020 – COVID-19—is there anything the coronavirus can’t do? Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) seem to think it should make the feds tell the states how to run their elections. They’ve introduced a bill that would do just that. S. 3529, the “Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act of...

Jul 21, 2012 – Hold onto your hats: On July 13, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a great decision. That’s right, the legendary Ninth — one of the nation’s most-overturned appeals courts — has for once rendered a decision well within the legal mainstream. And it was a decision that saved Frosted...

Aug 7, 2012 – Like many states concerned over election integrity, Pennsylvania passed a common-sense election reform: voter ID. As a result, it has been targeted in a lawsuit by the ACLU and threatened with litigation by the politically driven Eric Holder Justice Department. The ACLU lawsuit is unfounded, and the DOJ actions...

Jul 30, 2012 – In a little noted decision on July 23, a federal district court judge concluded that internal DOJ documents about the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case “contradict Assistant Attorney General [Thomas] Perez’s testimony that political leadership was not involved in” the decision to dismiss the case. In other...

Aug 21, 2012 – I’ve never understood why the NAACP is so set against voters having to show a photo ID when they vote, but a recent incident suggests one possibility.  An election official I know in Virginia recently received a pre-completed voter registration form in the mail from the Virginia NAACP headquarters in...

Jan 10, 2012 – A big development in the lawsuit filed in Virginia by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and joined by Gingrich, Santorum, and Huntsman contesting the state’s ballot access requirements. The federal judge has just filed an order saying that there is a “strong likelihood that the Court will find the residency requirement...

Mar 29, 2013 – When Chris Matthews compared President Obama to Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca on his Thursday show after the President’s latest gun speech, he couldn’t even get his analogy straight.  Matthews said this: “Let me start tonight with this: You know that scene in Casablanca when the French police captain shoots...

Apr 10, 2013 – Left-wing magazine Mother Jones made news this week with a report based on a secret recording of a Feb. 2 meeting of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell with campaign strategists.  Federal and state law prohibits publication of information acquired through secret recording, but a 2001 Supreme Court ruling gives publishers...

Jul 24, 2013 – The rush by Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) to push through President Obama’s latest judicial nominees before their records can be thoroughly reviewed is underway. On June 4, while announcing his nomination of three more judges to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, President Obama repeated what...

Aug 20, 2013 – As the military (with the support of secular groups that don’t want an Islamist state) battles the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Americans argue over how to react, we should look back at history to understand why we should support the military as the lesser of two evils and hope...

Aug 19, 2013 – A federal judge in Kansas has just thrown out the latest ideologically driven Justice Department prosecution under the FACE Act, ending a long nightmare for a pro-life activist. Judge J. Thomas Marten granted Angel Dillard summary judgment, finding that the government produced no evidence of a “true threat” under...

Apr 11, 2013 – Readers of PJ Media know that I was recently denied reappointment to a local electoral board in Virginia after my initial three-year term had ended.   That was apparently due in part to local Democrats being upset about my “various positions on voter identification.”  They lobbied local county judges...

Apr 30, 2013 – The American Civil Rights Union wants local election officials to clean up voter rolls in Mississippi. Last Friday, the group filed suit against two counties that have more registered voters than the Census says they have voting-eligible citizens. The ACRU is stepping into the breach left by the Civil Rights Division...

Aug 12, 2015 – This should terrify any parent whose son is about to head off to college or is presently matriculating anywhere in the Ivory Towers of academia. The fundamental lack of due process and oppressive tactics used by university administrators at Washington & Lee University (W&L) should lead any family to...

Sep 18, 2015 – Seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns, D.C. has lost another gun case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia — one that involves the very same plaintiff, Dick Heller. In the latest case, Heller v....