Our leftist one party government thinks that the constitution is merely a set of guidelines. Not some absolute rule of law. Ex post facto taxes? No problem. Change the constitution without an amendment? No problem.
Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional, according to sources briefed on the issue. But Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who supports the measure, ordered up a second opinion from other lawyers in his department and determined that the legislation would pass muster. ~washingtonpost.com