From FAUX NEWS
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184017,00.htmlLast Thursday, House Republicans selected a new majority leader. The election of John Boehner underscores what some of us have been saying for months: control of the U.S. House is very much up for grabs in the 2006 elections.
Earlier in the week, the U.S. Justice Department filed a friend of the court brief in the ongoing Texas redistricting case. Their brief makes it very clear that this is the most politicized Justice Department since John Mitchell served as attorney general under President Richard Nixon.
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That brings us to the Justice Department’s “friend of the court” brief filed in the Texas case.
In what some consider a blatant political act, the Justice Department sided with the Texas Legislature and urged the court to uphold the Texas redistricting plan.
In so doing, the Justice Department argued for a judicial interpretation of the federal Voting Rights Act that could jeopardize 19 of the 41 Congressional seats currently held by African Americans.