May 18, 2013
Benghazi, IRS, AP: The Scandal Week That Was
As we close out “scandal week,” let’s assess where we stand.
• • •
May 13, 2013
DOJ Secretly Obtained Phone Records Of 20 Associated Press Reporters And Editors
Today we learned the Department of Justice secretly obtained phone records of 20 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. This news should alarm not just the AP and other news organizations, it should concern everyone. The AP learned of the secret probe this past Friday in a letter from the DOJ. While the letter revealed that the government obtained the phone records, it did not reveal why.
• • •
February 23, 2013
Voting Rights Act To Face Supreme Court
The 1965 Voting Rights Act will go before the Supreme Court this week. “Over a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act,” said Chris Hayes on “Up” this morning. “Which finally ended decades of routine exclusion of people of color from exercising their right to vote.” Section 5 of the act, which requires Federal scrutiny on voting law changes in southern states, is the specific language being challenged. The argument against Section 5 is that it diminishes the sovereignty of southern states and that the south has changed since the era of Jim Crow.
• • •
March 12, 2012
Justice Department Blocks Discriminatory Voter ID Law In Texas
• • •
September 30, 2011
Tasty Muffin Rage
• • •