Posted on 08/10/2014 8:17:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
To read the Associated Press's Friday evening coverage of a federal judge's refusal to block North Carolina's election law reforms from taking effect in the upcoming general election, you'd think it was an unsuccessful effort on the part of a group of poor Davids to defeat the Tar Heel State's government Goliath.
As J. Christian Adams at PJ Media noted shortly after the decision, it was nothing of the sort. Attorney General Eric Holder's Department of Justice weighed in heavily, and is in fact listed as the plaintiff in one of the three cases Federal District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder decided. Additionally, a prominent national law firm took the case on a pro bono basis for the allegedly aggrieved groups. I'll first look at a bit of what AP's Michael Biesecker and Gary D. Robertson wrote, and follow it with Adams's reality-based rendition.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
what’s holder’s record now? 2-60 or 70?
Such a record of course means there is institutional racism. /s
a prominent national law firm took the case on a pro bono basis for the professionally aggrieved groups
Minor correction.
A bit of light piercing the darkness?
Just asking.
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