[EL] DOJ to interview legislators during VRA preclearance

[Abigail Thernstrom]

	Indeed, as John knows, the voting section contacts from a  
jurisdiction often consist of a misc. collection of advocates whose  
voices have little or no actual political weight in the locality, but  
who are taken seriously by DOJ attorneys working on the submission.  I  
discovered this in interviewing people myself whose names had cropped  
up in the internal voting section documents to which I gained access  
in the 1980s.

	Abby


Abigail Thernstrom
Vice-chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
www.thernstrom.com

On May 26, 2011, at 11:55 AM, john.k.tanner at gmail.com wrote:

> This is routine. Justice seeks and accepts information from all  
> sources that may have relevant information.  The questions go to the  
> issues of racial purpose and retrogression.
>
> Nothing to see here
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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