| Obama's Justice Department reticent to act while Republicans decimate Voting Rights Act via gerrymandering. Virginia, South Carolina, and Louisiana all got green lights after adopting the same stance as Georgia: "Approve or we sue." For Louisiana, it was the first time its state House of Representatives maps had ever won approval on the first try. And last month, the assistant attorney general for civil rights hinted the department might drop its Section 5-based challenge to a North Carolina town's election law. The real reason for that laissez-faire approach, Democratic leaders suspect, is that the DoJ is loath to test Section 5 in court. |
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