Pictures from the True the Vote Summit
From TexasGOPVotes.
Kissel of WSJ: “Tom Perez Views the Law as a Malleable Thing”
“Failing upwards, streches the law, fails, gets caught, and moves up.”
Rep. Trey Gowdy Holds Class
Coverage at PJ Media.
Tom Perez Uses Home Email on St. Paul
Wall Street Journal has the story of AAG Tom Perez using a private Verizon email account to work the St. Paul quid pro quo.
“Asked in his March 22 interview with congressional investigators about the use of personal emails in the St. Paul matter, Mr. Perez responded: ‘I don’t have any recollection of having communicated via personal email on this matter.'”
Add to the list of instances of questionable testimony under oath.
Ooops: “Republican lawmakers investigating the matter said they had obtained at least one email from Mr. Perez’s Verizon account related to the St. Paul cases.
Rep. Trey Gowdy Lights into a Law Professor On SC Voter ID
I testified today at the House Judiciary Committee. The Republican members were on their game. An example is below. Background: The DOJ Voting Section lawyers recommended that South Carolina Voter ID be precleared. Tom Perez overruled them. Senator Lindsey Graham wants the preclearance memos else he may vote to block Tom Perez’s nomination as Labor Secretary. Today we learned whether or not the academy cares about the political ranks overruling the career ranks.
Expect to see more of this until the DOJ releases the memo by Chris Herren and Bob Berman on SC Voter ID.
Also from my testimony today: Perversely, this is the precise conduct which some have alleged occurred in the preclearance of Georgia Voter ID in 2005 – except the IG Report says that didn’t occur. Career attorneys recommended preclearance of Georgia’s Voter ID law and political leadership adopted their recommendation. Nobody was overruled. See, IG Report, 85-87.
RNLA on House Judiciary Commitee Hearing
“So for any liberals out there reading this, next time you are watching a vote fraud committer like Al Sharpton rail with ridiculous hyperbole against Voter ID, watch Rep. Gowdy talk with passion about what was done to the well-meaning people of South Carolina seemingly only because they are southern.” Link.
PJ Media Testifies on the Justice Department
Link.
WMAL on Tom Perez
Someone just sent me my WMAL interview on Tom Perez. Thanks. Below.
Jerrold Nadler’s Crocodile Tears
Yesterday during the House Judiciary Committee Hearing at which I testified, Rep. Jerrold Nadler cried crocodile tears about the fact that Hans von Spakovsky and I have published inside information about matters such as the South Carolina voter ID preclearance recommendation.
Nadler was outraged that we had the audacity to exercise first amendment rights and publish information about decisions which wasted $3.5 million in South Carolina taxpayer money and sent electronic surveillance into Louisiana welfare offices.
Nadler asked us why we would publish such scandal. He bemoaned the effect on morale these revelations had.
Von Spakovsky answered the question but time ran out before I could. Too bad.
I was prepared to take Mr. Nadler on a trip down memory lane – a trip which once saw him signing the praises of Dan Eggen at the Washington Post.
Read one here on Texas redistricting.
Read another on Georgia Voter ID.
Nadler really doesn’t like that it’s not 2006 anymore, where his side of the Judiciary Committee is the only one armed with information. His side of the hearing room is no longer the only one with any fight in them. And the Washington Post is no longer as relevant as it once was when internet media outlets are getting 25 to 50 million hits a month.
Yesterday the Republicans greatly outnumbered the Democrats in both attendees as well as information. Only John Conyers and Mr. Nadler asked any questions of substance – a far cry from 2006 where a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the voting section was a firing line from the Democrat side with GOP who couldn’t get out of first gear. Those days are over and aren’t coming back.