[EL] DOJ to interview legislators during VRA preclearance

[john.k.tanner at gmail.com]

Indeed, the Justice Department also interviews people who do not have relevant information including cranks. Some legislators fall into one or both categories.  Reasonable people will disagree on how well Justice separates the wheat from the chaff.  
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	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
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