Common sense makes a judicial comeback.   Thankfully, this means the North Carolina voter ID law will be in place for the midterm congressional (and Senate) elections in November.

“Hans von Spakovsky, former DOJ voting official, says it is going to be a very bad weekend for lawyers at the Justice Department Voting Section. “Eric Holder has been beaten now twice in the Carolinas on voter ID. Today’s ruling shows just how wrong he is when it comes to election law.”

Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch says, “It is an embarrassing defeat for the Holder Justice Department. The court’s decision eviscerates Eric Holder’s politicized and racially inflammatory legal assault on commonsense election integrity measures. The court expressly rejected the Department of Justice’s contention that minorities are harmed by commonsense measures that help secure honest elections. The court’s dramatic rejection of Holder’s legal theory shows that that the DOJ’s lawsuit, which was coordinated with political activists at the White House, was always more about cynical political and racial appeals than upholding the law.”

Although it greatly pains the New York Times to have to report it:

“The 125-page written ruling, issued late Friday by Judge Thomas D. Schroeder of the Federal District Court, rejected the plaintiffs’ arguments that the law, one of the most far-reaching in a recent national wave of Republican-backed legislation on voter ID and against voter fraud, would place “disproportionate burdens” on African-American voters hoping to participate in the November elections.”

I get the sense that the NYT reporter has a hard time typing the phrase “Republican-backed”.  Just a guess.

And, as usual, I find the most delicious gems in the comments section of these news stories:

“If black people want to vote, they will vote, and they won’t care if they have to “take the bus”. Good grief, Holder, they’re not fragile little petals, they’re people with their own minds and opinions. It’s a stupid, ridiculous argument, and one the Justice Department should have been too ashamed to make.”

Indeed.  But shame has never been Eric Holder’s strong suit.

You can read the entire legal opinion here after you conclude celebrating the fact that there ARE judges who are not fooled by Eric Holder’s blatant and racist attempted manipulation of the election process.