Details here at PJ Media.  The Lawyers Committee has jumped the shark.  They are sending nasty letters about this obvioulsy racist and intimidating billboard that factually describes Ohio law.

 The Foundry.

General Dempsey reverses course and now encourages the military to vote and not remain neutral during elections.  General Marshall, who never voted in his life, is no longer the standard or example to be followed.  The clear statement of the importance of voting should be applauded.  However, for many states, this statement is too late, it should have come weeks ago before state registration deadlines.  Many state registration deadlines have already passed and now with under 30 days to go until the election, some military voters may not be able to register.  For many states there are additional options to register or vote.  For those that can, new absentee ballots sent at this date will have more difficulty being returned in time by troops in the field.  Below is the excerpt from the article and video. 

The
military’s top commissioned and noncommissioned officers have joined
forces to urge service members to exercise their right to vote in the
upcoming election.

Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and his senior enlisted advisor, Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan B.
Battaglia, recorded a video message for distribution throughout the
Defense Department.

“Throughout history, the men and women of our
Armed Forces have fought to protect and defend our constitution,
including our right to vote,” Dempsey said in the message. “Voting is
indeed democracy in action, and it defines, in no small part, what it
means to be an American.”

Link to full statement and video

 Link to the second float in the parade.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s response to the video showing Obama campaign staffers abetting a federal felony of double voting: fire Stephanie Caballero.  Matt Boyle at the Daily Caller has more, and it blows right back at the DOJ Voting Section:

“It is an outrage that Obama campaign staffers appear to be encouraging voters to engage in voter fraud,” Smith said in a statement. “But even more outrageous is that this is happening at the same time that the Obama administration is blocking state laws enacted to prevent voter fraud. Several states, including Texas, enacted commonsense voter ID laws that require voters to show a valid form of identification before they vote. But the Obama administration has challenged these laws in court, preventing them from being implemented before the November elections.”

Now that South Carolina has won the voter ID case against the Holder Justice Department, how big is the butcher’s bill?   How many federal tax dollars did the Voting Section waste defending the unobjectionable law?  This is especially tragic given the fact that the career lawyers inside the Voting Section produced a preclearance memo.  This memo recommended that the law be approved administratively.

Despite the professional career recommendation, “Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Colangelo then overruled the career staff and ordered that the Department of Justice object to South Carolina’s voter ID.”  (Full story at PJ Media).

One source tells me that civil rights groups and the DOJ paid experts at least $50,000 in their failed efforts to oppose South Carolina Voter ID.  Another source estimates that the DOJ lawyers spent thousands of man hours, tens of thousands of out of pocket expenses and enormous political capital attacking the law. 

Now that the DOJ case is lost, the public has a right to know how much money Perez and Colangelo wasted to push a political and ideological agenda that didn’t square with the law.  Expect the FOIA requests to follow asking for ICM records, bills, travel, etc. 

James O’Keefe has done it again.  The full story at PJ Media.

From Watchdog.org:

“You can’t vote twice in a federal election,” said J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department elections lawyer and author of “Injustice,” a best-selling novel about voter fraud. “Obviously, this Stephanie Caballero doesn’t find it as offensive as I do that someone may be planning to vote twice.”