Senate Judiciary Plumbs Voter Fraud Questions In U.S. Attorney Scandal

The Senate is pursuing additional information in the role voter fraud cases played in the administration's controversial firing of eight U.S. attorneys as the political storm surrounding those dismissals subsides.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the committee’s ranking Republican, have reached out to a former U.S attorney in the Civil Rights Division to determine whether one former prosecutor was added to the administration's list for failing to pursue a voter fraud allegation in Missouri.