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If elected leaders here in Guam wanted to really get a better deal for our citizens from the federal government, a strong domestic or internal process would be used. In all of the years I have looked at this, no leader has ever really taken this approach. Instead, everyone seems addicted to playing dress up with the United Nations and talking in a nonsense stilted language they feel the United Nations uses. The reality is that the game is with the federal government, not the United Nations.

There is a good chance that the Ninth Circuit Court will issue a ruling in the Davis case before the November elections. Will our elected leaders still try to keep the 5 percent happy or are they going to worry more about those in the 95-percent zone? Luckily, you can vote on what they say.

Three elected officials charged with voter fraud in Pennsylvania won’t be facing prison, or even time.  They are moving into pre-trial diversion.  (Paywall).  I am curious to see if this barely reported case of voter fraud ever makes it onto one of the “academic” studies purporting to demonstrate very little voter fraud.  Those studies are characterized by false negatives.

“Now there  is little chance that a nominee to head the Civil Rights Division can be confirmed before the November elections.  If Republicans take control of the Senate, don’t expect the White House to nominate someone with Adegbile’s radical background.”

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“There were irregularities: In Fulton County, home of Atlanta, New Georgia submitted more than 30,000 cards, of which 7,000 were for voters in other counties, according to Richard Barron, the county’s director of elections and registration.”

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“This is also another big defeat for Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced in July that the Justice Department would be intervening in this lawsuit. The Department lost a lawsuit that claimed South Carolina’s voter-ID law was discriminatory in 2012, and a federal judge recently refused to issue an injunction against North Carolina’s voter-ID law in another lawsuit filed by Justice.”

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Game Over.  Play Again?

Poor Judge Lynn Adelman.  For a brief time, the judge was a star in academia and among left leaning reporters when the court blocked Wisconsin voter ID.  His opinion was built on a house of sand in it’s interpretation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.  Now the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals says Wisconsin Voter ID is ALIVE for November election. 

What will all the academics, reporters and pundits do who gushed over the lower court’s opinion blocking the law?  I suspect silence will be the response. It usually is.

This also gums up efforts in North Carolina and Texas for voter ID opponents who were eager to borrow Adelman’s reasoning to strike down those laws.

This sort of thing belongs confined to history:

Taylor writes that this investigation, which violated the civil rights of more than two dozen organizations in Wisconsin, may have been a political vendetta spurred by the wife of Milwaukee district attorney John Chisholm, the prosecutor behind this investigation.

A former prosecutor, described as “a longtime Chisholm subordinate,” says that Chisholm told him and others that his wife, a teacher’s-union steward at a local high school, was so upset over the union bill that Governor Walker sponsored and the legislature passed that she was “repeatedly moved to tears.” According to Taylor’s source, who refused to identify himself out of fear of retaliation, Chisholm said that “he felt that it was his personal duty to stop Walker from treating people like this.” The source, who professed to have admired Chisholm before this happened, stated that, “it was surprising how almost hyper-partisan he became . . . ”

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“Attorneys representing groups that successfully sued over Wisconsin’s voter ID law came in for tough questioning Friday before a panel of three federal judges, with Judge Diane Sykes saying they had won “a whopper of a facial remedy” and questioning why the law shouldn’t be put in place for the Nov. 4 election. ”  Link.