Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Department of Justice Could Be Practicing ‘Guilt by Existence’ in Florida Voter Purge Case, Attorney Says

Scalding review of the actions of the Civil Rights Division.  And one reason that Section 5 enforcement has been politicized to a point its very existence is in the balance.

The Department of Justice may be engaged in a politically motivated
attack on the state of Florida over efforts there to purge thousands of
people who may be ineligible to vote from the state’s voter rolls. “I don’t think there’s any question that in the Civil Rights Division
there’s a mindset of guilt by existence. It’s phenomenal,” conservative
attorney Joe diGenova told CNSNews.com. “If you exist and you’re in
that jurisdiction and you happen to be of one party, that’s it.”

Mr. diGenova said that this has been the case in every one of the
Justice Department’s voting enforcement cases, calling the government’s
actions a “preemptive strike” against states.

“I’m not sure what this is aimed at, other than some imagined threat
against the voting rights of minorities,” he said. “I’ve not seen a
single piece of evidence, real evidence. This appears to be a preemptive
strike to stop people from cleaning their [voter] rolls up, and it just
doesn’t make any sense.”

DiGenova, a long-time Washington, D.C.-based lawyer, told CNSNews.com
that the department’s Civil Rights Division had become the “resting
place” for liberal civil rights activists who think that “everybody’s
wrong.”

“The Civil Rights Division has become the resting place for extremely
activist individuals in the civil rights community who spend their
lives doing nothing else but this and are very active politically to
boot when they’re not in the government,” he said.

“So they have no perspective and everybody’s wrong. They have this
image that if anything happens in any area that there’s supposed to be
special scrutiny by the Justice Department, they immediately think the
worst. And there’s just no evidence that the worst or anything like it
is occurring.”

full story here.

“States’ new version of the Alien and Sedition Acts”

Citizens in 22 states should be alarmed.  An amicus brief filed by
those states’ attorneys general indicates they do not believe in robust
First Amendment rights.  Instead, they urge the U.S. Supreme Court to
let state governments censor political speech and political activity.

That is, in essence, the position taken in their embarrassing brief just filed in American Tradition Partnership v Bullock, a case in which the Montana Supreme Court brazenly ignored the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United. 
The Montana court reinstated a ban on independent political
expenditures by corporations—a ban that a lower court had correctly
thrown out as unconstitutional following the Citizens United ruling.

Trying to differentiate its state law from the federal ban, the
Montana Supreme Court issued a decision that is a marvel of deceptive
reasoning.  The court basically defied the Supreme Court.

More of the opinion piece by Hans von Spakovsky in Human Events.

“How Obama aided and abetted Scott’s voter purge mess”

 Miami Herald:

“Ironically, DOJ’s order cited the so-called “Motor Voter” law, which actually calls on states to purge ineligible voters. One former DOJ lawyer and critic, conservative J. Christian Adams, blogged that the former Obama appointee in charge of the voting section announced early on that it would ignore Motor Voter’s purge obligation.

No enforcement


“We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law,” he quoted Julie Fernandes as saying in 2009 when she was an assistant attorney general. “It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.” She has since left DOJ.


So to recap: The feds delayed and then said “time expired” under a law it selectively enforces.


And it’s not the only selective reading by the feds. . . .


“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government,” Obama wrote on the White House’s blog. “We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”


But closed government, of the type shown by DOJ and DHS, helps promote messy voter rolls and partisan recriminations. And just in time for the presidential elections.”

Mark Levin Spends Hour Hammering DOJ Voting Section Policies

The host of the most listened to nationwide 6pm radio show spent an hour hammering the Justice Department Voting Section policies.

Audio player here. Starts at minute 37 in player, and goes on, and on and on, until about 1:12.

“Our Justice Department is in the hands of an attorney general who is every bit as corrupt as John Mitchell.  There is one difference. Holder’s corrupting is institutionalized.”

“Eric Holder is a race baiter.”

“If you are the New Black Panther Party, you can show up under this attorney general and threaten people.”

“That’s why guys like Holder relive pre-Civil War days.  They need those events to turn them on the population.”

“Obama will use the Department of Injustice, its lawyers, its power, to fix the outcome of this election.”




New Hampshire: “Voter ID plan would take effect in fall, with tighter restrictions later”

A new legislative compromise would ask all
voters to show a photo identification card before casting ballots in
state elections starting this fall. Those voters without an ID would still be
able to vote without having to fill out any additional paperwork, but a
different, voter ID law would kick in after July 1, 2013.   Link to full story.

Democrats don’t want to tighten up the integrity laws until AFTER the election.  Not surprising!  Just one more swig at the bottle, please?!?