Window dressing?

McClatchy News says the Justice Department is reversing course and is now enforcing the Voter Registration Act. I have a feeling there's a lot of dressing in the windows and very little substance behind them:

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is reversing course and has begun taking steps to enforce a 1993 law that's intended to make it easier for poor minorities to register to vote.

The division, which has come under attack for allegedly pursuing policies aimed at suppressing the votes of Democratic-leaning minorities, has demanded that 18 states provide evidence that they're complying with the National Voter Registration Act.

If it is fully pursued, this new action will represent the first significant return to traditional enforcement of voting-rights laws since a scandal erupted earlier this year over the alleged politicization of the Justice Department.

It's the big "if" at the beginning of that last paragraph that's the tip off.