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From McClatchy:
WASHINGTON — A former senior Justice Department official has backed off sworn Senate testimony that he consulted with senior agency voting-rights lawyers before inaccurately advising Arizona officials they could deny thousands of voters their rights to provisional ballots. Hans von Spakovsky, who hopes to win confirmation to a full six-year term on the Federal Election Commission, revised his statement in a recent letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee after former senior department voting-rights lawyers challenged his veracity.
WASHINGTON — A former senior Justice Department official has backed off sworn Senate testimony that he consulted with senior agency voting-rights lawyers before inaccurately advising Arizona officials they could deny thousands of voters their rights to provisional ballots.
Hans von Spakovsky, who hopes to win confirmation to a full six-year term on the Federal Election Commission, revised his statement in a recent letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee after former senior department voting-rights lawyers challenged his veracity.
MSNBC is reporting that the Veterans Administration has agreed to a settlement with Americans United for Separation of Church and State that will allow Pentacles to be placed on the headstones for Wiccan and other pagan soldiers. The settlement stipulates that the symbol is to be placed on markers within 14 days for those having pending requests with the VA. The symbol will be added to the approved religious symbol list along with 38 others previously approved. Links to the MSNBC story and the Americans United statement below the fold.
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