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The U.S. Senate voted 51-48 on May 25 to confirm Kristen Clarke to head the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division. She will lead a Civil Rights Division (CRD) of the DOJ that has become less a race-neutral enforcer of civil rights laws and more a government wing of progressive organizations. A bill currently before Congress would give that politicized division sweeping powers over North Carolina’s elections. Christopher Coates, a former American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who served in the Voting Section in the Civil Rights Division, brought the discriminatory rift in...

I want to give Christian Adams Power Line's last word on Kristen Clarke's fitness to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Christian, after all, has had the misfortune of dealing with Clarke (I have not). And Christian's assessment of Clarke encompasses the issue of voting -- something I did not discuss in my many posts about her. Here is some of what Christian has to say about Clarke: Clarke

Themselves for 22 months. i'm a former justice department attorney in the voting section of civil rights division and we take that protection of evidence of voting records very, very seriously. we'll have to see what the doj does about this. meanwhile, i have never seen a circumstance where some third party, some inexperienced third party in this case, out of state firm, has actually seized ballots from election officials who are required under law to protect them. and they've been moving them back and forth. they moved them from the maricopa county storage facility where election officials ke...

Toggle open close   H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, would give liberal bureaucrats in the Department of Justice (DOJ) the power to veto changes of polling place locations, voter ID and registration requirements, and the boundary lines in redistricting in every single state. It would also change legal standards to make it almost impossible for states to defend themselves against meritless litigation. Supreme Court Ruling in Shelby County v. Holder H.R. 4 is intended to overturn the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Shelby County v. Holder (2013),RE...

Tweet FILE - In this Thursday, April 27, 2017 file photom, George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, waits for the start of a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels. (Olivier Hoslet/Pool Photo via AP) If there was a conservative news site that routinely published errors and exaggerations as part of its business model, we all know what would happen. Facebook would hide the stories. Hacks at Factcheck.org would swing into action. Google would disappear the story. For good measure, @Jack @Twitter would spank them and put them on truth probation, or worse, as befell Jam...