Eric Holder is scheduled to land in Guam today, the first U.S.
attorney general ever to visit the U.S. territory, which serves
as a center of U.S. military power in the Western Pacific. But
the Associated Press reports that after meeting with local
officials, Holder will not take any questions from journalists
“because his tight schedule doesn’t give him time for a press
conference.” That may be, but the curious omission also spares
Holder from any questions about why his department has refused
to intervene in or comment on an important court case involving
U.S. citizens who are being barred from voting on the island — a
far more serious matter than the mainland voter-ID laws decried
by Holder as the equivalent of “poll taxes.” The Chamorro-
native-controlled government of Guam is actively excluding the
non-Chamorro U.S. citizens on the island from voting in an
upcoming referendum on the island’s future. Non-native citizens
— Filipinos, other Asians, whites, and blacks — are even
prohibited from registering to