Georgetown Law Offers Money and Credit to Help Left Wing Election Litigation

The academy up to their tricks, leveraging grades and professorial power to push the professor’s ideological agenda:

CLC Litigation Director to Co-Lead Course Giving Georgetown Law Students Hands-On Work on Pending Election Law Cases


Practicum to be led by J. Gerald Hebert of Legal Center & Paul Smith of Jenner & Block 

This semester, Georgetown University law students will have the opportunity for hands-on legal work on pending election law and voting rights cases through a practicum course for credit.  The election law class will be co-taught by Paul M. Smith, the Chair of Jenner & Block’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice, and J. Gerald Hebert, the Campaign Legal Center’s Executive Director and Director of Litigation.


The course will review campaign finance regulation and voting rights law and provide students with opportunities to draft legal memoranda and briefs in pending cases, as well as proposed legislative fixes, at a time when voting rights and campaign finance reforms across the country are facing new challenges.


“This course allows students to get real world experience in pending campaign finance and voting rights cases,” said J. Gerald Hebert of the Legal Center.  “This is a busy and challenging time in the wake of major Supreme Court decisions that have severely undermined voting rights and campaign finance reforms.”  


The semester-long course consists of a weekly two-hour seminar and ten-hours of supervised work per week. 


 

“No excuses: What was really behind the Colorado recalls”

All mail voting advocate goes down to defeat:

“The big excuse offered by both Giron and Morse—one wonders whether this, too, is being centrally managed—is that the election process itself was unfair. That pill is ultimately impossible to swallow.

Giron did all she could to tilt the elections process in her favor. During the January to May session she had been preparing a complete re-write of Colorado election law: same-day voter registration, mandatory all mail-in ballots, virtually no residency requirements and no photo voter ID. Abolish the precinct polling place and reduce the role of citizen election judges.


After it was apparent that there was a recall effort against her, she struck the provision in the law that said recall elections must be conducted in person, at polling locations. Like every other election, they were to be all mail-in.


To understand the significance of this, it should be noted that mail-in ballots are the tool of choice for election fraud, according to author John Fund’s newest book on election integrity, Who’s counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.


Giron’s bill was written behind closed doors. It was introduced at the last opportunity, no debate, no amendments—just like Morse’s gun bills and a host of other legislation this session. What she forgot—or perhaps didn’t know—was that the Colorado Constitution guarantees candidates the right to petition on to the ballot up to fifteen days before an election.”

California Dumping at Large Elections to Create Minority Districts

“All a plaintiff has to do, experts say, is demonstrate that racially polarized voting exists — and often that can be done with election results that reveal contrasting outcomes between predominantly minority precincts and white ones.

Across California, community college and school districts are making the switch.


“We’re seeing easily the biggest shift” since the Progressives ushered in at-large elections nearly a century ago, said Douglas Johnson, president of the research firm National Demographics Corp. and a fellow at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College.

LA Times

Colorado officials reviewing voter fraud allegations

No evidence of suppression of voters but allegations of voter fraud?

Christy Le Lait, who ran Morse’s campaign to stay in office, said a stunt illustrating how to abuse that law that was covered widely by the media has cast a pall of doubt over those votes. “What is real, what isn’t, what’s fraud?” Le Lait asked. “I don’t even know how you start to look at that.”

I thought voter fraud was easily detectable and documented.

Link.

Arizona elections bill that “enrages Democrats” will go to the voters in 2014

Democrats are enraged again.  Not on photo ID, not on citizenship verification, not even on removing dead or ineligible voters.  That’s so yesterday.  No, this time the outrage is caused by seeming reasonable absentee ballot reforms (endorsed by local election officials) and third party ballot access changes.  The reasonable reforms struck quite the nerve, enough so that opponents obtained enough signatures to put it to a referendum.    

To read more about the constant rage, go here.

Texas Department of Public Safety expands hours of operation to provide free Voter IDs on Saturdays

Texas is providing free voter IDs to any individuals who needs it by extending the hours of operation to Saturday of 50 select drivers licenses offices across the state.  The offices will be open for no other business except to provide and process voter IDs so there will no lines for other services. This is a very smart move on different levels.  
Selected Texas driver’s license offices are expanding their days of operations to include Saturdays, offering potential voters another window to apply for a free photo IDs required of voters.  The electronic identification certificates are valid for six years, and can only be used for voter identification. Nearly 50 offices around the state will be open for four hours on Saturdays, solely to handle requests for the certificates. They are intended to aid voters who do not yet have a viable form of ID. The extended hours begin Saturday and end Nov. 2.

Eric Holder, IRS officials served as personal advisers to tax-exempt black ministers on how to engage in political activity

 The Daily Caller reports on highly partisan activity by two major institutions in our federal government. 

“[The CBC] had the IRS members there specifically to advise them on
how far to go campaigning without violating their tax-exempt status,”
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told The Daily Caller.

“I viewed the meeting as highly problematic. Eric Holder
heads the agency that prosecutes organizations who give false
information to the government. The Justice Department coordinates with
the IRS on actions taken against not-for-profits. These ministries are
given not-for-profit status on the basis that they are not engaging in
any political activities. Here, the Obama administration was clearly
encouraging them to maximize their efforts by showing them where the
lines were drawn in federal case law,” Turley said.

“It is a fundamental precept that cabinet members should not engage in political activities.
The most important of those cabinet members would be the attorney
general of the United States. To have the attorney general actively
advising political allies of the president showed remarkably poor
judgment on his part,” Turley told TheDC.

“I believe this session undermined the integrity of the justice
department, signaled to other Justice Department officials that the
attorney general wants to support these black ministries as much as
possible,” Turley said.

North Carolina Republicans makes absentee voting easier

North Carolina codified the no-excuse absentee status to request mail ballots and allows new ways to put absentee ballots in the hands of voters.  More at Washington Post.


The bill actually makes it easier to vote by absentee ballot.
North Carolina was already a no-fault absentee state, meaning a voter
didn’t have to offer an excuse to receive an absentee ballot. The law
codifies that, and it requires absentee ballot request forms to be
posted online; state parties and voter registration groups can copy the
request forms, too. The law even allows county boards of election to
deliver absentee ballot request forms and the ballots themselves to
voters who are disabled or ill. Those who cast absentee votes won’t have
to show an identification, according to Section 4.1 (It did not escape
state Democrats’ notice that more Republicans vote by absentee, while
more Democrats cast early ballots).