A story at Alternet.org in which both the Left and the Right can agree on one thing.
There is a collision coming.
Sean Hannity and Quin Hillyer Agree! Injustice among best books of 2011!
Thanks guys. Both name Injustice (link over there on the left <—-) as a best choice for holiday presents from 2011 books.
Hannity picks Injustice, as does Quin Hillyer, for best book gifts for the season. Hillyer writes:
“This is the single most important, ‘must-read’ book of the year. Adams, one of the two whistleblowers who left the Obama-Holder Justice Department rather than endure its lies and lawlessness, details many hair-raising, nearly unbelievable examples of the Holderites’ willful disregard for the laws as written.”
On Roger Hedgecock nationwide tonight at 7est
Tonight I will be on the Roger Hedgecock show nationwide in the 7pm hour EST to discuss my book Injustice, Eric Holder’s attack on state election integrity laws and the Justice Department.
Drudge on Austin Rally
Thanks for all the emails. Yes, Drudge had my quote on the Drudge Report for most of the day regarding the True the Vote rally in Austin.
Link to story here.
Rep. Allen West’s response? “Here Eric Holder goes again.”
“Plain and Simple, DNC Wants Voter Fraud”
So says Ray Hartwell at PJMedia. On the heels of these experiences, just this week I received an urgent email message from the “Director for Voter Protection” of the Democratic National Committee. Seeing this title — Director of Voter Protection — I almost expected to read about measures being taken by the DNC to protect elderly white citizens from intimidation at the polls by the New Black Panthers. I thought perhaps the DNC was courageously seizing the initiative, since the Department of Justice has declined to take any action against such illegal voter intimidation tactics. Or possibly, I surmised, the DNC is announcing steps to assure that the voting rights of military personnel serving abroad will be protected against the numerous well-documented partisan efforts (by Democrats) to disqualify absentee ballots from our service personnel. Reading further, I discovered that the email was not about these serious matters. Rather, it warned me of a “Republican effort to pass laws that restrict voting rights,” and of “these laws’ implications for real people.”
Judicial Watch: New Documents Show Department of Justice Coordination With ACORN-Connected Project Vote
If Judicial Watch is investigating, DOJ should be worried.
Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it obtained records detailing communications between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Estelle Rogers, a former ACORN attorney currently serving as Director of Advocacy for the ACORN-connected organization Project Vote. (Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 11-1497)). Judicial Watch is investigating the DOJ’s partnering with Project Vote on a national campaign to use the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) to register more individuals on public assistance, widely considered a key voting demographic for the Obama 2012 campaign. President Obama previously worked for Project Vote.
here is the link to the entire release.
Eric Holder Targets Voter ID Laws Just in Time for 2012 Election
Newsmax reports:
Holder was greeted by around 100 protesters when he turned up at the symbolically important Lyndon Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 which allows the federal government to interfere in state voting laws if they would disproportionately deter minority groups from voting.
The conservative protesters, who had traveled from all over Texas, waved signs calling for Holder’s impeachment or indictment. They claimed there is no need for government interference on voting. One of them, former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams told Fox News, “He’s announcing war on Texas tonight.”
The attorney general said he was concerned about measures that tended “to restrict in ways that are subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, the ability of the American people to cast their ballots.” He said protecting access to the voting process “must be viewed not only as a legal issue but as a moral imperative.”
And in a thinly veiled attack on Republicans, Holder said he was calling on political parties “to resist the temptation to suppress certain votes in the hope of attaining electoral success and, instead, achieve success by appealing to more voters.”
and this:
Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation told the Post that Holder’s stance is based on “ideology and politics,” saying that courts have found voter ID laws in both Georgia and Indiana to be nondiscriminatory.
“Georgia’s law has been in place for five years,” added von Spakovsky, a Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration. “Not only did the turnout for African Americans not go down, it went up.”
Senator John Cornyn warns Attorney General Holder not to mess with Texas voter ID law
Texas Sen. John Cornyn sent a clear message to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder this afternoon: Don’t mess with Texas’ voter identification law. “Voter identification laws are constitutional and necessary to prevent fraud at the ballot box,” Cornyn said
Holder’s highly partisan speech to rally support for DOJ’s upcoming objections to photo ID laws may be picking a fight that he ultimately loses. The chief law enforcement officer in the country is inserting himself into a political issue in which the Supreme Court has already provided strong legal direction.
Holder calculated the timing of this speech and objections in Texas and South Carolina to be early enough in the campaign to rally the troops, yet late enough in the elections process that the Supreme Court may not have a chance to smack down his runaway Department until after he and President Obama have already packed up their offices in 2013.
Apparently, this is part of the national conversation on race.
The full story is here.
Some coverage of Austin True the Vote rally
Tweeting stream with photos http://twitter.com/#!/KonniBurton
Rule of Law blog coverage.
Holder: DOJ is the decider on Photo ID and Section 5, not the Supreme Court
Here is the headline out of Texas: Obama’s AG to attack Texas voter ID law
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder plans to make news tonight in Texas. The Washington Post is reporting that Holder has chosen the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin as the site of a speech “expressing concerns about the voter-identification laws, along with a Texas redistricting plan before the Supreme Court that fails to take into account the state’s burgeoning Hispanic population.”
Expect to see an unhealthy arrogance coming out of Holder’s Austin speech that informs the American public that the Department of Justice is not satisfied with simply enforcing the current law on voter ID and redistricting under the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Rather, the Department of Justice is intent on resisting the precedent of the Supreme Court on photo ID and application of Section 5 and stretching the outer limits of interpretation of existing statutes.