Justice Department Calls In The Big Guns To Stop Voter Suppression

[mfcorey1]

It’s difficult to exaggerate the prominence Stanford Law Professor Pam Karlan enjoys within the progressive legal community. Karlan is one of the most active members of the Supreme Court bar — among other things, she co-authored the brief that convinced the justices to strike down the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act last June. She is a former litigator for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and she is among the most widely regarded voting rights experts in the nation. If President Obama had shown more courage in the early years of his presidency, or if Senate Democrats had deployed the nuclear option sooner, she would be a federal appellate judge today. Many Court watchers, including myself, would choose her if we could place only one person on the Supreme Court.
So when the Justice Department revealed on Friday that Karlan would become the nation’s top voting rights attorney, it was as if Marsellus Wallace called up the many voters being disenfranchised in states like Texas and North Carolina, and told them that he’s sending The Wolf.
Karlan will take over as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division’s voting rights section. In this role, she will oversee the Justice Department’s most important challenges to voter suppression laws — including its efforts to restore federal oversight of Texas’ election law and its challenge to the nation’s worst voter suppression law in North Carolina.






http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/23/3099181/justice-department-calls-big-guns-stop-voter-suppression/#

[Sienna86]

1. This is good. nt

[Warpy]

2. Good, those Kochsuckers need to be stopped

and, if there is any justice left in the Justice Department, some of the architects of this stuff need to go to prison over it.

[babylonsister]

3. Excellent!! nt

[mazzarro]

4. About time -why so long? -- n/t

[NBachers]

6. Land hard and Ramming Speed!

[loudsue]

7. This is really good news for us NCarolinians! The Koch heads that are leading our government here

have done EVERYTHING they can to mess up this state. After the gerrymandering they have put in place, we are going to need every possible vote to get rid of these assholes.

[Enthusiast]

8. This is encouraging.

I hope she make a difference.

[Gothmog]

9. AG Holder is doing a great job of rebuilding voting rights section

Bush tried to destroy this section by violating the rules to hire partisan hacks like Christian Adams, the current attorney for True the Vote (a racist group trying to steal votes from minorities). This is a great addition to the voting rights section.

The DOJ is doing a good job of protecting voting rights.