“Yesterday was a significant day in the IRS abuse scandal. The scandal evolved from being about pesky delays in IRS exemption applications to a government conniving with outside interests to put political opponents in prison.

Emails obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act reveal Lois Lerner cooking up plans with Justice Department officials to talk about ways to criminally charge conservative groups that are insufficiently quiet.”

Full story at PJ Media.

Amendments to the Voting Rights Act are in big trouble in Congress.  Why?  Because of a windshift over the last 5 years.  The wind shifted because the Voting Section abused and misused power.  It dropped cases it shouldn’t have dropped.  It brought cases it shouldn’t have brought.  It didn’t enforce parts of the law it didn’t like.  This cherry picking and abuse means that those in the House that voted for the 2006 law won’t vote to pass it again.  One example of many from the Hill:

Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas) voted for the law’s reauthorization in 2006, but says he won’t again.

“Back at home, my constituency has shifted significantly and does not believe Texas should be singled out. They believe elections are being done properly. They believe redistricting is being done properly. They don’t have the same concerns they did eight or nine years ago when I voted for it,” he said.

Today’s revelation that the Speech Regulators in academia and nonprofit groups were pressing the government to criminally prosecute conservatives groups in order to scare other conservative groups merits a refresher on the architecture of the IRS scandal.  This isn’t about the IRS delaying an exemption determination.  This is about speech regulators in academia and in non profits, always the smartest minds in the room, urging the government to attack political opponents.

“Last Friday, in a speech at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference, President Obama proudly announced that the Justice Department had taken on more than 100 voting rights cases since 2009. The problem with that claim is that, since 2009, the Justice Department has taken on only 39 voting rights cases —and as former Voting Section lawyer Christian Adams points out, only 13 were related to protecting minority voting rights. And, with respect to some of the cases in which the department has been involved, it lost spectacularly—such as its false claim that South Carolina’s voter ID law was discriminatory.

Perhaps President Obama misspoke when he overstated the number of voting rights cases by more than 60—or perhaps he was misinformed by his Attorney General, Eric Holder. In fact, the ever-criticized Bush administration had a much better enforcement record with much higher case numbers than the Obama administration, as was outlined in a report released by the Justice Department’s Inspector General in March 2013. President Obama also made no mention of his administration’s unjustified dismissal of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party—that would, after all, not fit the narrative he is trying to propagate. Regardless, President Obama’s exaggerated claims come as no surprise, especially given the setting of this particular speech.”

The Foundry

“Remarks made by an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court at a Democratic Party fund-raising dinner, as well as her membership in a private organization, raise serious questions about her possible bias against the state’s new voter ID law. Under applicable judicial ethics rules, she should remove herself from the controversial litigation challenging the law before it reaches the state Supreme Court.

On Saturday, March 22, North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Cheri Beasley spoke at the Carteret County Jefferson Jackson Dinner. …

At the Democratic Party dinner, according to the Carteret County News-Times, Justice Beasley said that “a lot of folks are confused about [voter ID] and the confusion is by design.”


Link.

Emails obtained by Judicial Watch contain IRS emails discussing efforts of Larry Noble and others to seek criminal prosecutions of conservative groups in order to make a statement and scare other conservative groups.  PJ Media has the story.

More “nonexistent” voter fraud, from the home of LBJ’s Box 13:

 Fox news covered at Mediate, and failing to cover Melowese Richardson.

On June 10, a blistering new book on the Justice Department and the shenanigans inside the DOJ Voting Section is released.  “Obama’s Enforcer” by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky will detail abuses of power at Holder’s Justice Department.  It has disturbing stories from inside the Department about Justice Department staff both giving a pass to criminal election activity as well as naming the names of those inside the Civil Rights Division who engaged in criminal activity.  Amazon link here.

John Cornyn tweets that “the American ppl deserve better than demagogic rhetoric from POTUS on voter ID”