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.
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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.MALDEF Alum Now at DOJ Behind Stopping FL from Non-Citizen Purge
Read more about the ex-Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund alum who is on the case stopping Florida from purging foreigners from the voter rolls that led the Drudge Report in red this morning. Link to story 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. Mr. Holder’s Council of Black Churches address is merely the latest The courts will eventually expose much full story at the Wall Street Journal. Slate even says so: “Holder’s short keynote speech to the Council of Black Churches was something of a rallying cry for blacks and their like-minded allies.” Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network While Politico reports this number as feasible and part of a plan, the $1.0 Billion number above seems quite high and speculative. In fact, doubtful. However, the reporting below on the intensity and what Crossroads might actually raise this cycle seem more plausible. …American Crossroads and the affiliated Crossroads GPS, “The intensity on the right is white-hot,” said Steven Law, president On most days, Holder plays the Attorney General and chief law enforcement officer where he is sworn to uphold the law of the land in a fair and objective manner. Except for Tuesdays. Yes, Attorney General Holder told black ministers that he believes that voter ID laws upheld by the Supreme Court (and the left coast 9th Circuit Court of Appeals) and implemented for years in Georgia and Indiana … BLOCKS voting access. As the Weekly Standard noted, political hack David Axelrod is attending top secret Al Qaeda “Kill List” war on terror meetings – who can possibly predict the potential political fallout!?!. So while Axelrod reviews war on terror assassination lists being drawn up within some sort of rules of legal engagement, Holder plays the political hack and church organizer trying to energize the political base. That must be it; Axelrod is filling in for Holder. The Daily Caller has Rush Limbaugh’s response to the politicking of
According to Limbaugh, politics is supposed to be ignored when it “This is not some say-anything-to-get-noticed rabble-rousing media Some more on the Artur Davis switch to the GOP at Breitbart. What many Democrats realize, and few are willing to admit, is that the Democratic party has become radicalized in the last few years. In the speeches I give, I frequently say, “give me back Bill Clinton,” and I mean it. I spoke with Artur Davis at the True the Vote summit in Houston Texas. A better example of the contrast between the Democratic Party of 1995 and the Democratic Party of 2012 could not be found. While Davis embraces True the Vote, other Democrats attack what they don’t understand. While Davis reminds us of the obvious, that a photo ID is not a billy club, some cannot even begin to imagine anything other than Jim Crow.
WSJ: “Holder’s political moves inflame racial antagonism”
of his election-year moves that charge racial discrimination of one kind
or another. These include voting-rights lawsuits to block voter ID laws
in Texas and South Carolina, intervention in immigration cases in
Arizona, and various housing and lending discrimination suits. Whatever
the legal merits of these cases, their sudden proliferation in an
election year suggests a political motivation.
of this as meritless, but it’s a shame the media won’t call Mr. Holder
on this strategy before the election. Imagine the uproar if a Republican
AG pursued a similar strategy. It’s worse than a shame that America’s
first black Attorney General is using his considerable power to inflame
racial antagonism.
On AFR Radio Now
Holder’s Racialist Rally Cry
How unfortunate.
Politico claims GOP groups plan $1 billion dollar ad blitz
of prominent conservatives – including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and
Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – plan to spend roughly $1
billion on November’s elections for the White House and control of
Congress, according to officials familiar with the groups’ internal
operations.
the groups that Rove and Ed Gillespie helped conceive and raise cash
for, are expected to ante up $300 million, giving the two-year-old
organization one of the election’s loudest voices.
of American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS. “We just can’t leave
anything in the locker room. And there is a greater willingness to
cooperate and share information among outside groups on the
center-right.”
AG Eric Holder (a.k.a. church organizer) says voter ID laws block access to polls
community church organizer Eric Holder. According to Holder, voter ID laws passed in a myriad of states will
block access to the voting booth for minorities and young voters across
the United States. That allegation, according to Limbaugh, was dishonest
and motivated by politics. “This is irresponsible,” Limbaugh said. “It’s worse than
irresponsible. This is — it’s reprehensible what Holder is doing here …
This is why Holder is having meetings with the black churches, the
ministers. And he’s going to bring the IRS along, he’s going to bring
the Congressional Black Caucus along, the ACLU along. And we’ve got two
sound bites. Now keep in mind, this is the attorney general of the
United States. This is not some rabid pundit on the left, on MSNBC.”
comes to law enforcement, but Holder’s statement was anything but
“non-partisan.”
person. It’s not some kooky left-wing Communist member of Congress,”
Limbaugh said. “This is the attorney general of the United States, who
is supposed to look at this country in a non-partisan way, and enforce
the laws of this country. The No. 1 law enforcement officer of this
country. And his job is to protect and guarantee freedom, along with
everyone else who takes an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.”
Why Did Artur Davis Become a Republican: Radicalism
Davis left the Democratic Party for one simple reason: it has become radicalized by outdated, regressive and obsolete notions of race, and worst of all, the role of the rule of law. He saw voter fraud firsthand while others pretend it doesn’t exist. America is on the side of Davis, not the radicals.