National Review: “Yesterday, in an interview with CNN, Florida governor Rick Scott stated that Florida has already identified almost 100 non-U.S. citizens who are registered to vote, and over 50 of them have already voted illegally in Florida elections.”

 Former ACLU staffer and SCLC Executive Director Joe Hicks has more at PJ Media.

 US News and World Report.

The Project 21 black leadership network delegation, Horace Cooper, Deroy Murdock, and Council Nedd II, are scheduled to meet with Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights
Ivan Simonovic and human rights officer Giorgia Passarelli at United
Nations headquarters in New York City on June 13 at 3:00 PM eastern.
The meeting comes almost three months to the day after NAACP activists
met with OHCHR staff in Geneva, Switzerland to claim that voter protection laws unfairly target minorities.

Project 21 members plan to discuss the potential disfranchisement of
Americans of all ethnicities and backgrounds if ballot integrity is not
safeguarded — presenting U.N. officials with examples of illegal voting
behavior that was documented and oftentimes prosecuted. Cooper, Murdock
and Nedd will note that additional rights that Americans hold dear will
be at risk without the ability to cast a ballot without fear of vote
fraud.

Link to press release.

The editors at National Review: “Since taking office, Holder has stacked the Justice Department with politically motivated lawyers and enforced civil-rights laws in a racially biased fashion, for example dropping a solid voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panthers. He has asked a prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogators for alleged crimes that had already been investigated. He has tried to move Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York for a civilian trial. He has claimed voter-ID laws are tantamount to Jim Crow. The list goes on.”

A statewide survey shows voters support Pennsylvania’s new photo-ID requirement by a 2-1 margin. The Quinnipiac University poll results released Tuesday
showed the law, which is being challenged in state court, is supported
by 66 percent and opposed by 32 percent. More than 90 percent of
Republican respondents said they favored the law, while 53 percent of
Democrats said they opposed it.  Link here.

There’s much more to come in this dispute, which will directly affect the
ability of states to maintain the accuracy and reliability of their
voter-registration rolls by removing the thousands of non-citizens who
are registered across the country.  Full story at National Review Online.

 The LA Times editorial page says:  If Obama “gets a second term Obama could save himself, and Holder, some grief by looking for a lawyer who would be less of a lightning rod.”

PJ Rule of Law.

Redux:

Here’s some proof that to some in the civil rights industry, civil rights are about Democrat party interests, not minority interests.  (Link to video stream of the hearing here.)  From my testimony to the House Judiciary Committee yesterday:

“Loud critics of the Bush administration claimed that enforcement of Section 2 was lacking, when in truth it was vigorous. Indeed, I (and the other lawyers working on the case with me) personally brought more Section 2 cases than the entire Obama administration has.

Consider Wade Henderson of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. On March 22, 2007, he complained to the House Judiciary Committee about the purported lack of Section 2 cases brought by the Bush administration, complaining: “the [Civil Rights] Division must deal with and respond to growing distrust among minority communities who feel increasingly abandoned and marginalized by the Division’s litigation choices and priorities.”

When Henderson made this complaint, the Bush administration was in the process of litigating two Section 2 cases: United States v. Osceola County, FL (M.D. Fla 2005) and United States v. Village of Port Chester, NY (S.D.N.Y. 2006).

In preparing this testimony, I could find no complaints to the media from Mr. Henderson about the fact the Obama administration has not brought a single Section 2 case since I filed United States v. Town of Lake Park, FL (S.D. Fla. 2009), when I was a lawyer at the DOJ in March of 2009. The investigation of the Lake Park case was approved by the Bush administration. Thus, the Obama administration has not initiated then brought a single Section 2 lawsuit.”