The Sunday edition of the Washington Post will feature this op-ed of mine criticizing Attorney General Holder’s override of the Office of Legal Counsel’s determination that the so-called D.C. voting rights bill is unconstitutional. My closing:
Eleanor Holmes Norton, the nonvoting D.C. delegate to the House who aspires to be its voting representative, has made clear that she regards questions of constitutionality as irrelevant and that she thinks members of the House and Senate do, too. “I don’t think members are in the least bit affected in their votes on the question of its constitutionality,” she said just last week. “People vote their politics in the House and in the Senate.”
If true, that’s a very sad commentary on Congress. It’s even sadder that it appears to apply to our attorney general as well.