Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Soon to be Chairman Dan Lungren: Unhappy about military voting enforcement

Dan Lungren’s letter to the DOJ is a must read.   Well crafted prose can crush spin.  Lungren’s letter demonstrates the point.  A portion:

Rather than reply to the letter, yesterday you staged a press event describing the Department’s work as “robust
efforts” and stating that it “directly benefitted about 65,000 voters in 14 states.”   Whether or not the Department’s efforts have been robust, the results certainly are not.

Senator John Cornyn blasts DOJ over military voting

This is extremely bad news for the nomination of James Cole to be Deputy Attorney General.  The amazing thing is that DOJ had a chance to soothe an already upset Senator from Texas, but instead they made it worse.

Cornyn’s scathing press release is here about the DOJ’s enforcement of military voting rights, and in particular, a press release issued earlier today by DOJ praising themselves.   As we learned in other matters, the truth will eventually emerge about actual enforcement, and the “agreements.”