Author Archives: J Christian Adams

“Missouri voter photo ID requirement moves closer to ballot”

The St. Louis Post Dispatch: The question of whether voters should have to carry a photo ID to the polls could be decided on the ballot in 2014.  The Missouri House on Thursday approved measures to require photo identification, but the changes to the state’s constitution require approval by voters. Senate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles, said he would like to put the issue to a vote of the people.

Proponents of a requirement that voters present a photo ID or cast a provisional ballot argue it will increase the integrity of the election process. Rep. Stanley Cox, R-Sedalia, sponsored the constitutional amendment.

“We deserve the protection of photo identification at the moment the vote is cast,” Cox said.

“The Justice Nominee and the Cop Killer”

Senator Toomey AND the Democrat DA from Philly at the Wall Street Journal.

“But it is one thing to provide legal representation and quite another to seize on a case and turn it into a political platform from which to launch an extreme attack on the justice system. When a lawyer chooses that course, it is appropriate to ask whether he should be singled out for a high-level national position in, of all things, law enforcement.”

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Given this context—and the fact that Abu-Jamal was already well represented and had funds at his disposal—it is difficult to understand why, as acting president and director of litigation at the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, Mr. Adegbile chose in 2009 to enter the circus created by Abu-Jamal and inject his organization into the case. Under Mr. Adegbile’s leadership and through rallies, protests and a media campaign, the Legal Defense Fund actively fanned the racial firestorm. In a news release issued when it took over as Abu-Jamal’s counsel, the Legal Defense Fund proclaimed that Abu-Jamal was “a symbol of the racial injustices of the death penalty.”


At a 2011 rally for Abu-Jamal, Mr. Adegbile’s co-counsel on the case stated that “there is no question in the mind of anyone at the Legal Defense Fund” that [Abu-Jamal’s conviction] “has everything to do with race and that is why the Legal Defense Fund is in the case.”

In Defense of the Elastic Clause of the Constitution

From my speech in Atlanta last week at PJ Media:

I recently spoke at Emory University where one student defended all of President Obama’s unconstitutional actions by invoking the Elastic Clause of the Constitution.
Citing the Elastic Clause could well justify a wide range of administration actions, except for one problem – it doesn’t exist.

But you couldn’t tell that to the student at Emory University who came to my speech on Obama abuses of power in Atlanta last week. He persisted in defending the actions through the Elastic Clause, as if the be-all, end-all provision was common knowledge.


From the sound of it, the Elastic Clause must be common knowledge in faculty lounges.


“Starr County Resident Demands End to Voter Fraud”



Another South Texas county, another problem with politiqueras at adult day care centers.  KRGV reports on one resident’s quest to put a stop to it:


 


A Starr County man says politiqueras have turned the electoral process into a corruption-filled free-for-all.  Marco Flores said state officials must do something to stop the illegal activity.


 


He said El Cenizo polling site is one of the problem areas. The site is next to an adult day care center.


 


Texas offers curbside voting, whereby a ballot is brought outside to the voter’s car, if the voter is physically unable to enter the polling location.


 


“The politiqueras are already inside the car, especially with the elderly. When the election officer comes out from the poll site the politiquera takes over the ballot and basically coaches or points at the ballot to where the senior citizen is going to vote,” Flores said.  He said it’s a clear case of exploitation.


 


“What upsets me the most is that the senior citizen is not making a decision for himself. The decision is being made for him. The voter is not actually voting; the politiquera is voting for the voter or the senior citizen. That’s what we’re trying to stop,” he said.


 


Flores said his ultimate goal is to get legislation passed to stop politiqueras.


Wisconsin Voter ID Update



The MacIver Institute has the latest:


 


The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two separate cases over the state’s voter identification law on Tuesday. Arguments lasted a little over three hours.


 


Assistant Attorney General Clayton Kawski argued for the state in favor of Wisconsin 2011 Act 23, the state’s voter ID law. Kawski argued that the law was being challenged facially and opponents of the law had not provided sufficient evidence to find the law unconstitutional.


 


Attorneys from the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP, however, argued the law creates a new qualification for voting and that some of the state’s residents would be disenfranchised because they do not have a valid ID.


 


After the arguments, Attorney General JB Van Hollen said he expects the law to be upheld by the court.  “Wisconsin’s photo identification law is a common-sense law that helps voters prove their identity at the ballot box,” Van Hollen said in a statement. “Wisconsin’s law protects the integrity of our elections and promotes confidence in electoral outcomes. It is constitutional, and I am hopeful that the law will be in place for the 2014 elections.”