by Geoffrey Bennett

The Senate Rules Committee is considering nominations to the Federal Elections Commission today. One nominee — Hans von Spakovsky — is raising quite a fuss.

He once ran the voting rights section of the Justice Department, where he championed both the Georgia Voter ID bill and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's Texas redistricting plan. Critics have argued that his work in the voting rights section has disenfranchised thousands of poor and minority voters.