The Nation reported yesterday that President Obama has dispatched the Department of Justice to investigate states that have enacted voter ID laws:

Career lawyers in the civil rights division of the Justice Department, who were frequently sidelined and overruled during the Bush Administration, are reasserting their authority and independence under Obama. They may be the only ones who can halt the GOP’s war on voting.

This is the same Department of Justice that abandoned the open-and-shut case against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation.

As whistleblower J. Christian Adams writes in his new book, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department: “from the advent of the Obama administration in January 2009, it was clear resistance to the case went to the top of the Civil Rights Division and beyond.”

Two presidents, two administrations, two complaints. Who is right? Is the argument over voter rights enforcement merely a political battle that Americans are doomed to re-live with each change of government?

The debate goes deeper than partisanship. It is a clash between two different visions of civil rights and tolerance. One applies the same rules to all. The other imposes different moral and legal burdens according to race.

That double standard goes far beyond the Department of Justice. (more…)

From Heritage Newspapers:

On Senior Day 2011, more than 100 University of Michigan Law School grads walked out on a speech by Ohio Senator Rob Portman.

Last Year, President Obama spoke to the University of Michigan. He criticized “poisonous” rhetoric and advised students to sample opinions of both left and right. President Obama also opposes same-sex marriage along with the majority of Americans.
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