Here is a copy of the defamation lawsuit James O’Keefe filed against Mary Jacoby’s outfit, Main Justice.  It’s not the first time that Jacoby’s publication has published false information. 

National Journal: “According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, voter registration must be offered on the ACA exchange application because of the Medicaid eligibility determination. To be in compliance, CMS says they are including language on the paper and online applications that says, “If you want to register to vote, you can complete a voter registration form at usa.gov.” States that have opted to create their own exchanges are able to develop their own applications and choose how they enforce the National Voter Registration Act requirement.”

Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson says she hopes the state’s new voter registration forms will help curb voter fraud. 

Embarrassing overreach in the North Carolina complaint:

“For Eric Holder, American racial history is frozen in the 1960s. The Supreme Court ruled in June that a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is no longer justified due to racial progress, but the U.S. Attorney General has launched a campaign to undo the decision state-by-state. His latest target is North Carolina, which he seems to think is run from the grave by the early version of George Wallace.”

Both the North Carolina executive and legislative branch expressed no confidence in the North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper to perform his legal duties in defending the voter ID law.  Both the executive and legislative branch have hired outside representation to represent the interests of the people of North Carolina. 

Roy Cooper says the representation is a waste of money.  However, Cooper is running for Governor and his partisan criticism of the voter ID law was cited in the Department of Justice complaint.  The attorney for North Carolina should have been more careful in his comments; instead he gave his legal opponents at DOJ ammunition.

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Katie Pavlich at Town Hall.

The intellectually and literally dishonest Stanford Law Professor Pam Karlan has this article about voting. 

Mark Levin’s new book the Liberty Amendments devotes a part of Chapter 3 to how to get big money out of U.S. Senate elections: repeal the 17th Amendment.

I’ve not seen his idea addressed by Credible Scholars, but given Levin’s book has been #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and remains a top seller, I don’t suppose it matters.

Here’s his idea: after the 17th Amendment passed and led to the direct election of Senators, campaigns for Senate became subject to the usual architecture of House races – lobbyist money, Washington influence, responsiveness to faction.  Levin notes that the Founders predicted this, and thus they wanted the Senate to be elected by the state legislatures.

When election by the state legislatures, Senators had one constituency – the states as political entities.  Thus, a Senator’s focus was not in Washington D.C., but rather back home.  The 17th Amendment changed all that.

Florida is planning to take action to keep voter rolls clean.