South Carolina state. Rep. Alan Clemmons, the Republican lawmaker who wrote a voter ID law that the Justice Department considers discriminatory, isn’t helping his side’s case by his positive response to a racist email. The email essentially gives opponents the legislation to prove that the voter ID law the state is trying to enact is racially motivated.

It’s also not exactly the story Republicans want out in the media during their party’s nominating convention, especially given the fact that they’re already taking heat over an incident in which two attendees allegedly threw nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and said, “This is how we feed animals.”

— Posted by Tracy Bloom.