President Obama's campaign has recruited thousands of lawyers for this year's election amid a slew of new state voter ID laws. The mass of legal support appears to be unrivaled by Republicans or precedent.
Former Justice Department official J. Christian Adams testified before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution on "Voting Wrongs: Oversight of the Justice Department's Voting Rights Enforcement."
TALLAHASSEE - A federal judge has refused to stop Florida from removing potentially non-U.S. citizens from its voter rolls. The U.S. Department of Justice sued to halt the purge.
A top Pennsylvania Republican's remark that the state's new voter ID law would help Mitt Romney win the state has reignited a debate over whether the law is intended to curb fraud, as Republicans say, or to depress Democratic turnout, as Democrats charge.
CONCORD -- Gov. John Lynch on Thursday vetoed a bill that would require voters to show a photo ID or sign a qualified voter affidavit, setting up a showdown with legislators this week.
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a DFLer (Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) who has campaigned against the photo ID requirement for voting passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature, said Thursday he will not defend the language of the proposed constitutional amendment in a court challenge that names him as the defendant.
Judicial Watch has sued the Department of Justice, saying it has not turned over public records related to its decision to block the state's photo ID law.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to move forward with his plan to purge the voter rolls in his state of ineligible voters despite a Justice Department order to halt.
A free society will soon not be free if the citizens in it see their freedom as something that should arrive effortlessly, free of personal responsibility. ... Black leaders do damage to our nation, and to our black citizens, to label as racist the call for requirements for a modicum of personal responsibility in order to vote.
WASHINGTON - House Republicans on June 7 again took aim at Attorney General Eric Holder, charging him with politicized decision-making on state voter ID laws and Operation Fast and Furious.