“IRS’ Lerner went after Christian Coalition while at FEC”

Newsmax reports: The woman who ran the IRS tax-exemption office — which now is accused of improperly targeting conservative groups — presided over a lengthy investigation of the Christian Coalition when she headed the enforcement office at the Federal Election Commission.  According to The Weekly Standard, some of the same techniques and procedures used by Lois Lerner in the FEC investigation of the coalition in the late 1990s were later used by IRS employees under Lerner to gather information from tea party and other conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. 

Why am I not surprised that Lois Lerner learned her tactics at the FEC – that bastion of over-the-top free speech regulators.

“Supreme Court won’t get involved with Mississippi redistricting”

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t order new legislative elections in Mississippi, despite a lawsuit that said current lawmakers were chosen in outdated districts that diluted black voting strength.  
…Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said in a statement Monday that “Supreme Court brings closure to the redistricting battle brought on by the 2010 Census.”

“Ex-Justice Department lawyers talks dead voters, Alabama voter fraud in Mobile speech”


Adams discussed three parts of his book dealing with Alabama – its history of voter fraud, its inflated voter registration rolls and its attempt to enact a voter identification law. Adams cited Perry and Hale counties, both of which have a history of voter fraud – particularly with respect to absentee voting. He said “wranglers” have filled out absentee ballots in local elections and coerced residents to sign them “by the hundreds.”


The state Attorney General’s Office investigated and eventually charged three local officials in 2008 with voter fraud. Acting on his own, Hale County Circuit Judge Marvin Wiggins, who was related to the defendants, quashed search warrants in the case. The Judicial Inquiry Commission later brought judicial ethics charges against the judge.


Adams said some 200 people cheered the criminal defendants at their arraignment and held signs and sang songs harkening to the civil rights movement. It was a repugnant appropriation of that just cause, he said, noting that all three ultimately admitted guilt.


“The pled guilty after they stole and dishonored that noble history,” he said.


……There is a remedy, Adams said. The Motor Voter law passed in the Clinton administration has a little-known provision allowing private citizens to sue in order to clean up voting rolls. Adams’ legal foundation currently has lawsuit pending in Indiana, Ohio and two in Mississippi. “When I’m done with Mississippi, I’m coming to Alabama,” he said.

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