Author Archives: J Christian Adams

“Ben Jealous Voter ID Rhetoric Inconsistent With Reality”

RNLA Chair David Norcross at Breitbart.  “Ben Jealous, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recently repeated the ridiculous and scurrilous claim that voter identification (ID) is tantamount to Jim Crow and a poll tax. While there is no support for Jealous’ incendiary allegations, he now even desperately tries to support his case by grossly misrepresenting a survey by the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) in order to launch a radical campaign against voter ID laws.”

Is there no more accountability?

Florida Bar intervenes in fight over Florida Justices, concerned Tea Party may boot liberal activist Justices

After reading this article and the roll out of a new public relations campaign defending the merit retention process for the judiciary, it is clear that The Florida Bar feels more than a bit threatened that a growing group of Tea Party and conservative activists created a movement called “Restore Justice 2012.”  Restore Justice was created in reaction to the judicial activism of the Florida Supreme Court, including their refusal to allow Florida voters the opportunity to vote on the health care amendment to the Florida Constitution. 

The diminishing elite of the Democrat Establishment and liberal groups like the League of Women Voters recently voiced their concern that the most liberal, activist Judges on the Florida Supreme Court (who protect their liberal interests) will be defeated in a merit retention election.  The Justices include Barbara Pariente, Peggy Quince, and R. Fred Lewis and Restore Justice want voters not to retain the Justices.  

While it is difficult for these type of elections to get on the media radar and for citizens to make informed decisions, there must be some real fear brewing on behalf of the liberal legal establishment toward the Florida Tea Party.  How else to explain the Florida Bar throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a campaign to protect a slew of liberal Justices.  And Florida Republicans now have every right to campaign against these activist Justices because of the Florida Supreme Court’s partisan handling of a number of different controversies.

By raising the stakes from the narrow review of individual judges to the merit retention process itself, the Florida Bar actually allows Republicans to now join the Tea Party in throwing out the  activist Justices.  Why? Because the merit retention system in Florida is a non-democratic process that does not work any better than the partisan Florida Supreme Court.  The Florida Bar’s reactive attempt to help the activist Justices actually risks their current incumbency more than they realize.

Thomas Sowell Hammers Voting Section on Racial Bias

Thomas Sowell believes that Holder is showing racial bias in the enforcement of voting rights.  It won’t be too long until the courts find the same bias in multiple areas of the law.




Attorney General Eric Holder recently told a group of black clergymen that the right to vote was being threatened by people who are seeking to block access to the ballot box by blacks and other minorities.  This is truly world-class chutzpah, by an attorney general who stopped attorneys in his own Department of Justice from completing the prosecution of black thugs who stationed themselves outside a Philadelphia voting site to harass and intimidate white voters.


This may have seemed like a small episode to some at the time, but it was only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The U.S. attorney who was prosecuting that case — J. Christian Adams — resigned from the Department of Justice in protest, and wrote a book about a whole array of similar race-based decisions on voting rights by Eric Holder and his subordinates.


The book is titled “Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department.”




… then Sowell really hits it.





Holder’s pooh-poohing of voter fraud dangers, and hyping the “threat” of denying minorities “access” to the voting booth, are completely consistent with his drive to:


(1) Maximize the number of votes by black Democrats.


(2) Spread as much fear as possible among minorities that they are under siege and Democrats are their only protection and salvation.

The full article can be found here.

DOJ demands that Florida keep non-citizens and foreigners on the rolls

The Justice Department ordered Florida’s elections division to halt a systematic effort to find and purge the state’s voter rolls of noncitizen voters.


Read more here: story.

These non-citizens are not permitted to be on the rolls to begin with.  Lax registration procedures on the federal level improperly placed them on the voter rolls. The federal government delayed in allowing a check with databases until just recently to identify non-citizens.  Now the federal government tells Florida they cannot remove them.  Amazing.

Federal Judge blocks part of Florida registration regulation law

The UPI reports that a federal judge in Florida blocked
enforcement of some provisions of a state law restricting third-party
participation in registering voters.

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle found a 48-hour deadline for groups
to turn in new voter registration forms is “harsh and impractical” but
ruled most other provisions of the law — enacted under Republican Gov.
Rick Scott — may stand, The Miami Herald reported.

New Hampshire agrees to staggered Voter ID bill

Negotiators agreed Wednesday that the Senate’s version of a voter ID
bill would be enacted for the elections this fall, and the House version
would prevail after that.

If approved, a wide range of
identification would be acceptable this fall — including student IDs —
but in later elections, only driver’s licenses, state-issued
non-driver’s identification cards, passports or military IDs would be
allowed. Those who don’t have photo identification would sign an
affidavit and be photographed by an election official.

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