Yesterday's Washington Examiner posted an article about a letter sent by Glenn Fine, Inspector General of the Justice Department, to Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Representative Frank Wolf (R-Virginia). The letter states that the Inspector General is planning to investigate "the enforcement of civil rights laws by the Voting Section of the Department's Civil Rights Division." This has to do with the handling of the case involving the New Black Panther Party wearing military style uniforms and intimidating voters in Philadelphia during the 2008 Presidential Election. In case you haven't seen the video, it is still posted on TouTube.
The article states that Representative Wolf's concerns about voting rights go way back:
"He noted that of the Virginia delegation, he is the only one to have voted for the Voting Rights Act, and he was then ripped by the Richmond Times Dispatch for it. "If there are three guys in Mississippi engaging in voter intimidation, it needs to be dealt with. And if it's two guys in Philadelphia, as in the case of the New Black Panther Party, they should be dealt with too.""
Hopefully this case will be settled in time to make it clear that voter intimidation is unacceptable. If we are to continue as a free country, we need free elections.
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