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"D.C. Vote Memo Called Informal; Holder's Query Is Subject of Debate"

"D.C. Vote Memo Called Informal; Holder's Query Is Subject of Debate": The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, "After receiving a legal memo that declared the pending D.C. voting rights bill unconstitutional, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. reached out to another lawyer on whose judgment he had relied for years. Holder contacted Deputy Solicitor General Neal K. Katyal, who served as one of his advisers in the Justice Department during the Clinton era. Katyal gave Holder, who said he had already decided that the bill passed muster, an informal view that the measure could be defended in court if Congress passed it and the president signed it."

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).