DoJ Will Decide Who Votes?

Crud. Democracy Now reports today that the Department of Justice under Cotton Mather...er...Never met a dead man he could win an election against...um... John Ashcroft is taking the position that only he can decide to sue if a voter claims he or she was denied the right to vote. This goes completely against the Voters Rights Act and the change, we're told, was slipped in through the Help (White Republican) Americans Vote Act, called HAVA.