Th demagogue conjures racial threats to the right to vote. Google Freddies Fashion Mart for earlier examples of his inclination to stoke ignorant racial fury.
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House of Representatives passes amendment to cut off funding to DOJ in obstructing Voter ID laws
In a debate over budget appropriations, Representative Schweikert from Arizona spoke on the House of Representatives Floor about the ongoing Arizona and Texas battle with the Justice Department over voter ID laws. His appropriations amendment would cut off funding to the DOJ and limit their ability to litigate over the voter ID issue.
Based on his tweets, the amendment passed the House of Representatives.
The video can be watched here.
Interesting idea. Another idea would be to require DOJ to pay for the litigation costs for states to go to Court. Section 5 review should not require years of delay and millions of dollars of litigation just to implement a law that has been upheld by the Supreme Court and proven not to discriminate in both Section 5 and non-Section 5 states.
Daily Caller: “DOJ defends staffer who called Mississipians ‘disgusting and shameful'”
Daily Caller: “The Department of Justice is using official resources to publicly defend a career employee in the Civil Rights Division Voting Section who made inflammatory comments about Mississippi voters.
DOJ spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler didn’t answer when The Daily Caller asked her to explain these inconsistencies in DOJ’s public handling of this case. She also declined to confirm or deny whether Gyamfi made that inflammatory Facebook posting on official DOJ time, on official DOJ computers or both.”
New Book by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky
Amazon has posted the link to the new book by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky. The book will pick up where my book Injustice left off, disecting the vote fraud deniers both inside and outside of government.
Shortly, Election Law Center will be posting a regular sales scoreboard showing the sales ranking of Fund and Von Spakovsky’s “Who’s Counting” compared with books by vote fraud denier Tova Wang and also Rick Hasen. I am anxious to see which book performs better in the marketplace of ideas, especially since Hasen saw fit to single out Fund and Von Spakovsky in his book. I am anxious to see which argument gets more traction. Stay tuned.
State of Florida Probes Voting by Foreigners
The Miami Herald reports that thousands of foreign citizens in South Florida might be illegally registered to vote and cast ballots in elections.
The potential problem is largest in Florida’s largest county: Miami-Dade, where the elections supervisor is examining 2,000 potentially unlawful voters, WFOR-CBS 4 News reported Tuesday. Broward is examining 260 suspected foreign voters. One suspected noncitizen voter has been registered for about 40 years, CBS 4 found. …The discovery of potentially unlawful voters is sure to fuel the partisan debate over voter fraud and voting rights. With 1.2 million registered voters in Miami-Dade, 2,000 potentially ineligible voters might not seem like a big number. However, it is more than enough to swing a close election in a state like Florida, where the 2000 presidential election was decided in favor of George W. Bush by 537 votes.
More Fox News on “Disgusting and Shameful”
The headline is a bit overextended – “Eric Holder Staff Caught Smearing Mississippi”
Texas Not Relenting in Defense of Voter ID
Responding to a DC District Court scheduling order in the state’s lawsuit against the DOJ, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office said it is not relenting in its defense of Voter ID: “In an ongoing effort to prevent Texas from enforcing its Voter ID law during the November election, the DOJ and partisans who oppose the Voter ID law, have issued endless discovery requests seeking millions of records that have nothing to do with this case. . . The DOJ and their partisan allies need to end their fishing expedition and stop their attempts to deny Texas the same right to require the very same type of photo identification from voters that has already been upheld by the Supreme Court. The needless delays imposed by the opponents of Texas’ Voter ID law continue to prove that Justice Kennedy was correct when he noted that the Section 5’s preclearance requirements put Texas at a disadvantage compared to other states”. To keep the July 9 trial date, and the possibility of an August 31 decision and November implementation of Voter ID, Texas must produce relevant databases, non-privileged documents and emails by today, May 9.
Michelle Malkin Debunks the SCYTL Conspiracy
Thank Heavens for Michelle Malkin. She has written this piece debunking the conspiracy theorists who think the company SCYTL is going to alter the outcome of the 2012 election.
“Before conservatives go all Michael Moore-moonbatty, let’s calm down and separate voter fraud facts from fiction. There’s no time to waste worrying about manufactured scares. And there are plenty of legitimate threats to electoral integrity without having to inflate or concoct them.”
I couldn’t get around to doing the piece because it was so absurd that I didn’t want to waste precious time on it. Michelle does it instead. Incidently, Malkin is a true treasure. I had the pleasure of having lunch with her and another national treasure, Attorney General Ed Meese, week before last in Colorado Springs. She had some very insightful comments about American politics which perhaps I will find the time to write about.
Mississippi Tea Party Reacts to “Disgusting and Shameful”
Mark Mayfield, board member of the Mississippi Tea Party says it isn’t fair that Mississippi is subjected to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act after 50 years of progress.
DOJ Defends “Disgusting and Shameful” Comments About Mississippi
The “comments were not confined to her opinions about the handful of Southern Mississippi students. No, the bigotry extended to all Mississippians. All of Mississippi was sufficiently ‘disgusting and shameful’ to warrant replacing the state motto.” More at PJ Rule of Law.