Trying to pull a fast one!! Congressman Hoyer: Skip hearings and pass new Voting Rights Bill by summer

The Hill reports that Democratic Leader Hoyer wants the House of Representatives to quickly pass the Leahy/Conyers bill by summer without any hearings, negotiations or other “national discussion” on race.  The last reauthorization to the VRA required months of hearings and substantial evidence of discrimination to try to meet the constitutional standards necessary for such intrusive on state law and justify providing such a veto power to the Obama Department of Justice.   In 2005, it took substantial preparation and almost a year of hearings (and ignoring amendments) to pass a bill that did not meet constitutional muster.  The Sensenbrenner approach of simply adopting whatever the activist groups offer failed miserably as long as the word “photo ID” is in the bill.  And the Democrats now want to pass the Leahy/Conyers bill without any substantive hearings or evidence as if the bill was some resolution naming a federal building or park.  While Sensenbrenner has no idea what is in the bill written by activist groups, Democrats are hoping to undo Republican redistricting gains and overturn integrity laws with an Obama DOJ.  

That is why Democrats are trying to pull a fast one.

Affair Adegbile in Acedemia

I normally disregard the views of academics largely because they don’t have enough eyeballs reading them or ears hearing them to make any difference.  But Michael Krauss at GMU has some insights into the failed Debo Adegbile nomination worth reading:

Reflection #2: Zealous, No-Holds-Barred Advocacy is Never Required By, and Is Sometimes Prohibited By, Legal Ethics.  Not only need a lawyer not take any given prospective client’s case, but when she does take a case she is neither bound to nor allowed to employ every conceivable means to succeed.  Lawyers may of course not break the law (bribe jurors, etc.), but their ethical limits do not stop there.  The ethical lawyer should not offer arguments that inflame racial passions, for instance, even if those arguments are likely to produce the desired result. . . .
Adegbile’s team’s political militancy is quite properly “owned” by Adegbile when it comes time to consider him for the privilege of a high governmental office.

“Strong deterrent message”: West Virginia fraudster sentenced to prison



Prison time for former Mingo magistrate:


 


U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston said a more than two year long prison sentence for Dallas Toler, 45, a former chief magistrate in Mingo County, was designed to send a strong deterrent message.


 


On Monday, Toler, who is from Delbarton, received a 27 month long sentence for voter fraud.


 


He knowingly registered a convicted felon to vote in 2012 and that person voted for “Team Mingo,” a slate of candidates that included Toler, in the 2012 May Primary Election.


 


“Voters deserve clean elections and honest public officials,” said  Booth Goodwin, U.S. Attorney for West Virginia’s Southern District.  “Politicians have to follow the law like everybody else.  When they forget that, they need to pay the price.”


NAACP Goes Back to UN To Air Complaints About American Elections

Here we go again.  The NAACP is going to the United Nations to complain about American elections.  The UN Human Rights council is comprised of governments which hardly respect human rights.  Among the members of the UN Human Rights Council: China, Cuba, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam.  The NAACP is going to complain about a variety of things including felon disenfranchisement.

Some of these countries don’t have meaningful elections. Some of these countries don’t let women vote.  All of these countries have despicable human rights records.  It says a great deal about the NAACP that they would turn to a gang like this to complain about American elections.

h/t Twitchy.

“Voter ID: Protecting the Integrity of our Elections”

Peter McGinley, a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Heritage Foundation, writes at The Foundry on the coming voter ID laws in the mid-term elections.
With midterm elections underway in Texas, the fight over voter ID will undoubtedly garner some serious attention in the national media in the coming weeks and months. Ten states will require voters to present photo ID when voting in this year’s midterms, despite vigorous attacks from liberal opponents and the Obama Administration.

…Voter ID is just another common sense requirement in a world where photo identification is required for nearly everything. And it is only one of the measures, albeit an important one, that should be taken by election officials to secure the integrity of the election process.