I read this amusing and incomplete Holder line at an MSNBC story on the DOJ’s Texas Voter ID litigation:
“Thanks to the hard work of our Civil Rights Division, we are continuing to refine and re-focus current enforcement efforts across the country,” he said. “And while the suits we’ve filed in Texas mark the first voting rights enforcement actions the Justice Department has taken since the Supreme Court ruling, they will not be the last.”
Really? If the Attorney General was being wholly forthright, he would have noted:
And while the suits we’ve filed in Texas mark the first voting rights enforcement actions the Justice Department has taken since MARCH 2009!
March 2009 is when the Justice Department filed the last Section 2 case. For more, read “Wade Henderson, Cat Got Your Tongue?”
No matter. MSNBC isn’t in the business of rooting out half-truths from the Justice Department. That task recently has fallen to United States District Court Judge Kurt Englehardt.
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Voter Fraud in Maryland: Guilty
A great example of how dirty voter rolls lead to voter fraud: Elsie Virginia Schildt, 46, was sentenced to probation before judgment and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service in the first 120 days of her probation.”
“A Frederick County woman pleaded guilty to voter fraud after she was charged with signing her dead mother’s name on an absentee ballot in the 2012 presidential election, the state prosecutor’s office announced Thursday.
More trouble in Motor City: Three Hamtramck men charged with felony voter fraud
“Salim Ahmed, 50, Armani Asad, 33, and Mohammed Russell, 32 are accused of possessing and returning multiple absentee ballots during Hamtramck’s August primary election. “It is a felony to possess or return absentee ballots unless you are the person voting, the voter’s family member, a mail carrier, or an authorized official.”
If found guilty, the three face up to five years in prison and/or a $1000 fine, stiff penalties whose deterrent effects are diminished by the fact that they are rarely imposed.
Texas Secretary of State focused on voter ID education not politics
Texas Secretary of State John Steen said Wednesday in Waco that he isn’t focused on the politics of the Voter Identification Law, but educating the public about the new requirement to present photo ID in order to vote. “I think voting is a sacred right, so I’m working very hard to make sure everybody who is eligible to vote is able to cast their vote and have their vote counted,” he said. Steen spoke Wednesday to a group of about 20 local officials from Waco and surrounding cities to educate them about how to administer the upcoming changes. Link
Justice for Tom Delay years later – conviction from political prosecution overturned
The conviction of former House Majority Leader Tom Delay is overturned. It is a shame that Justice was delayed for so long. There should be checks and balances to these types of political prosecutions by eccentric District Attorneys trying to keep their name in the paper. In this case, the only check and balance was the Texas Court of Appeals.
Another example of Injustice perpetrated by progressives in the name of campaign finance regulation.
Wisconsin Rep. Sensenbrenner wants to give Dept of Justice the power to stop Wisconsin Voter ID and other election laws
Despite public popularity and legal stamp of approval from the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other advocacy groups continue to sue states over legitimate voter ID laws. The Voting Rights Act already allows groups to sue if they believe the law violates civil rights. For example, the Advancement Project is suing Wisconsin over its photo ID law under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Congressman Sensenbrenner is working against his own state’s voter ID bill. The lawsuits are apparently not enough for him. Sensenbrenner wants to go one step further and adopt a new coverage formula under Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act to require states, including presumably Wisconsin, to submit every election or voting change to the federal government with the right of the DOJ to simply administratively object to the election law.
Despite the Supreme Court weighing in and affirming photo ID, the DOJ has already made up its mind to oppose these photo ID laws at every turn. Of course, Sensenbrenner knows this. That is why he called Attorney General Holder to voice his displeasure over a Section 2 lawsuit against the voter ID bill in Texas. The lawsuit revealed Holder’s true intent to the public. Sensenbrenner knows that Holder, if given the opportunity and power, would promptly file a Section 5 objection to the Wisconsin photo ID law. Yet he persists in giving Holder this additional power over Wisconsin.
It is remarkable that Representative Sensenbrenner would want to give the federal government a veto over Wisconsin voting laws, including important issues such as photo ID, redistricting and the other proposed reforms recently offered by his fellow state Republicans.
“After success in Mississippi, Attorneys go after bloated Texas Voter Rolls”
One News Now.
“The American Civil Rights Union is once again doing what the U.S. Justice Department should be doing: attempting to clamp down on potential election fraud.”
“DOJ Lawyer Karla Dobinski’s Misconduct Sends Police Officers to Prison”
PJ Media:
“What does it take for an employee to get fired in Eric Holder’s Justice Department Civil Rights Division?
Certainly perjury doesn’t do it. Neither does using a government credit cards to book airfare for romantic liaisons with a Miami girlfriend. That just gets you a nice buyout. Wanting to use civil rights laws to only protect black victims of discrimination? Ho hum. The culture of lawlessness is so pervasive at the Civil Rights Division, that a former Voting Section Chief felt comfortable telephoning current DOJ employees and suggesting they turn over confidential memos because they were worth cash. (Page 145 for details).
Now we learn that that an attorney in the infamous and lawless Civil Rights Division was engaging in clandestine blogging at a major newspaper in order to help convict New Orleans police officers in a matter which she was assigned.
Enter Karla Dobinski, DOJ Civil Rights Division lawyer by day and secret blogger by night. Dobinski was blogging in the comments at newspaper websites and anonymously polluting the atmosphere about the cases against New Orleans police officers on which she was working.”
Ohio Secretary of State: 270 Cases of Voter ‘Fraud or Irregularity’ in 2012, ‘Zero Cases of Suppression’
“Jon Husted, Ohio’s secretary of state, appeared on Fox & Friends on Wednesday, where he defended his state’s efforts to ensure the integrity of the voting process. He discussed his efforts to combat voter fraud and revealed that an independent investigation into past elections in his state showed that there were no cases of voter suppression.” To recap: Multiple proven cases of voter fraud that have resulted in convictions and guilty pleas. Zero cases of voter suppression.
North Carolina: Public Support for Photo ID reaches 72%
A High Point University/News & Record poll shows only 26% disapprove.