Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department said it will sue Florida if it doesn’t scrap its controversial voter purge program, which critics says unfairly targets minorities based on largely inaccurate information, CNN reports. At issue is a Republican-led effort to eliminate non-eligible voters in a battleground state that will play a key role in…
By Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com A just-released video may add fuel to the ongoing controversy over requiring photo IDs to vote. The conservative site Breitbart News reports that James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released a video trying to prove a point about the need to have photo IDs to vote. The video shows someone walking into…
By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times AUSTIN, Tex. — For nearly three years, Republicans have attacked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on national security and civil rights issues. For months, they have criticized him over a gun-trafficking investigation gone awry, with dozens of leaders calling for his resignation. Last week, more than 75…
