ABC news link here. Union groups and their supporters spent much of Wednesday castigating
billionaire donors, Citizens United and corporate power in the wake of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s victory over the effort to recall him from office.
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Burying the Lede in FL Vote Purge
Miami Herald, way way way down the page: “About 40 people statewide have been identified as noncitizens. At least four might have voted and could be guilty of a third-degree felony.”
“Citizens United Becomes the Left’s All-Purpose Excuse”
Link here.
MN Majority Intervening to Defend Voter ID Amendment
PJ Tatler has the story and the Motion to Intervene filed today.
More on True the Vote’s Mobilization in Wisconsin Victory
PR Newswire with details. Nationwide in November.
Tampa Bay Times and Hyperbole
hy·per·bo·le
noun Rhetoric .
1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
The Tampa Bay Times has an editorial today about Governor Rick Scott of Florida. It outlandishly compares him to George Wallace, complete with a photo of Wallace at the school house door. Desperate tactics by desperate folks are unfortunately predictable. The law of diminishing returns makes charges of racism incrementally less effective, especially when the underlying dispute involves illegally registered voters.
Accusing someone of being a racist who isn’t is the worst sort of false witness. The Tampa Bay Times should be ashamed.
New York Times on Florida: “So Sue Them”
The New York Times urges the DOJ Voting Section to sue Florida over the fact that Florida believes that DOJ has acted in extra-legal ways regarding illegal voters on Florida voter rolls. (National Review has the legal context of the fight.)
The GOP couldn’t get a bigger gift from the DOJ than a lawsuit against Florida.
There could hardly be a bigger issue to hand the GOP than the Holder Justice Department suing Florida to prevent them from removing illegal aliens and non-citizens from the voter rolls. Are such people registered on American voter rolls? Undoubtedly, I’ve seen the applications forms where they even admit they are noncitizens.
After yesterday’s disastrous performance by the Attorney General before the House Judiciary Committee, Holder’s standing has fallen even further. He is by far the most unpopular figure in the administration. Even ranking member Nadler was visibly unhappy with Holder.
If the Justice Department uses a risky interpretation of Section 5, and an absurd interpretation of NVRA to keep illegal voters on the rolls, it will be used like a club all through the fall against Holder and Obama. Congress has already started. Americans don’t want ineligible voters on the rolls, period. They don’t want gamesmanship and the smartest people in the room devising ways to keep them on the rolls. If that happens, there will be a steep political price five months before the election. An excited base can’t swamp and outraged majority.
Advancement Project Smokescreen for Criminal Voter Fraud
Breitbart has more: “While media attention continues to focus on Project Vote, and its history with ACORN, it is the Advancement Project that is now the lead player in the assault against voter fraud probes and photo identification requirements.”
“Documents Show DHS is Violating Law in Preventing Illegal Alien Purges”
National Review here:
Detzner is appropriately caustic when he says that the practice that DOJ appears to be endorsing is as follows:
The federal Department of Homeland Security may, for months, violate federal law and deny Florida and other states access to the SAVE database so that the federal Department of Justice may then assert that the resulting delays in a state’s election-integrity efforts violate the time periods establish in another federal law. This hardly seems like an approach earnestly designed to protect the integrity of elections and to ensure that eligible voters have their votes counted.
Rep. Rooney to Eric Holder: Why Does DOJ Allow Voter Fraud
Miami Herald has the text.
“the Department of Justice, under your leadership, is more concerned with protecting the reelection prospects of the President than with upholding justice and enforcing the rule of law.”
I once heard someone described as being “not a Rule of Law kind of guy.” That seems to fit the Attorney General. Even Democrats today on the committee seemed to have had enough of this Attorney General.