From an email obtained from Acting AAG Jocelyn Samuels:
One DOJ staffer leaves to work for Soros:
“I am writing to inform you of two upcoming staffing changes in the Civil Rights Division’s Front Office. Unfortunately for us, Eric Halperin will be leaving this month for a position as a senior fellow at the Open Society Foundation where he will focus on housing and credit issues.
Anyone who worked Eric during his four years in the Front Office knows of his unfailing commitment to civil rights and tremendous contributions to the work of this Division. To list just one example: under his oversight, the Division’s fair lending unit has obtained more than $775 million in monetary relief for impacted communities. I am incredibly grateful for his leadership in overseeing the work of the Employment Litigation and Housing and Civil Enforcement Sections. It is a loss to see him go, but I know we are all excited to see all that he will accomplish in his new position.”
A new DOJ staffer with a questionable record of scholarship comes to DOJ:
“Second, it is my pleasure to announce that Pamela Karlan will be joining the Division’s Front Office as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General where she will review the Voting Section. One of the nation’s leading experts on voting and the political process, Pamela has served as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission and an assistant counsel and cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1998, she was a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law and served as a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Abraham
D. Sofaer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She will be starting on January 13; please join me in welcoming her to the Division. “
“Few in NC apply for free voter ID”
Go now – no charge and no waiting: “Twenty-two people in North Carolina had applied for a free voter identification card as of midday Friday, the second day the card was offered in the state.” Need a ride? “Although most North Carolinians already have a form of photo identification, for those who don’t, some local Republican parties are already organizing efforts to drive residents to locations to help them get a free identification card,” said Daniel Keylin, spokesman for the state Republican Party. “Those efforts will continue to expand as we head closer to the election.”
Photo IDs won’t be required at the polls until 2016, so North Carolina voters have two years to get those free cards.
More Praise for Rep. Sensenbrenner from the Left
This time on MSNBC.
“We’re hopeful. We’re very hopeful. The good news is that we really believe there’s bipartisan support for amending the Voting Rights Act to try and deal with some of these issues. Ongoing discussions have been happening almost since the Supreme Court’s decision. We’ve been very heartened by public stance of Congressman Sensenbrenner.”
Stiff Opposition to Debo Adegbile Nomination by Fraternal Order of Police
Opposition doesn’t get much stronger than this. A sharply critical letter to President Obama opposing his nomination for Civil Rights Division AAG from a union that endorsed the President.
Rise in impersonation voter fraud spurs photo voter ID proposal in UK
To combat a rise in voter fraud, the UK is considering a common-sense solution: requiring voters to show photo identification – a passport or driver’s license – at the polls. “The Electoral Commission’s proposal follows evidence that an increasing number of people are being impersonated at polling stations and their votes being stolen.”
Voter Fraud Made Harder in NC
“The do-over election in Pembroke that is scheduled for March 11 is likely to produce results that town’s residents can trust, but it also might provide additional evidence of fraud in the Nov. 5 election for those who stubbornly cling to the notion that there was none — assuming those people exist. The last time we did this dance was in 2007, when a Lumberton City Council election ended in a tie and then months later, one of those candidates, the incumbent, defeated the other, the challenger, in a relative landslide. That raised eyebrows, but not much more. At that time there was no determined investigation of how the results from two elections featuring the same candidates in the same district only months apart could be so disparate.”
Link.
Injustice for $11
Right now Amazon is discounting Injustice for $11. The link over at the left still has the regular price and makes no reference to the discounted version. Go figure. So here is the link for a short supply of $11 versions of Injustice.
“A Moveable Voter Fraud Feast”
Town Hall.
“No. The whole purpose of Mr. Caldara’s very public vote was to show that the election legislation passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature and signed into law by Democrat Governor John Hickenlooper facilitated what would otherwise most certainly be considered fraudulent voting.”
2013 Top Ten Most Corrupt: #5 – Eric Holder
Judicial Watch ranks the most corrupt politicians of both parties.
“Democrats Complain about Voter Fraud Their Bill Enabled”
Colorado’s Democrat-controlled Legislature couldn’t wait to pass a “comprehensive” package of “progressive” election law changes last year that allowed same-day voter registration. Critics who opposed the partisan bill, including the state’s top election official and every GOP legislator, warned that the law’s ambiguity on residency and removal of the period in which to verify voters’ eligibility would enable fraud. One senator even suggested that HB 13-1303 should be called the “Same Day Voter Fraud Act.” Now the very Democrats who supported the lax new election rules, like Christy Le Lait, former campaign manager for recalled Democrat Senate President John Morse, are miffed that Denver activist Jon Caldara won’t be prosecuted for voter fraud – because he followed their law. “I think (Caldara) got away with voter fraud,” Le Lait told The Denver Post. The state disagreed, thanks to the “anything goes” voting law enacted by Le Lait’s old boss and his Progressive-Democrat pals. “After an extensive, months-long inquiry by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, Caldara has been cleared… because the attorney general can find no reasonable means of prosecuting him.” As predicted, the AG “could neither confirm nor disprove Caldara’s self-affirmation of an intention to make District 11 a permanent home… That was Caldara’s point… That’s why we’ve long required a modicum of residential stability before allowing someone to vote in a community election. We want voters who’ve invested at least a few weeks in a locale before helping determine who governs it. We want voters who actually live in a jurisdiction, not those willing to espouse intended residency for the sake of promoting special interests.” “If prosecutors can’t charge someone who exploited the law, after summoning cameras and reporters to the scene, they certainly can’t contend with run-of-the-mill abuse committed in silence.”
Thanks to Colorado Democrats, “voter fraud is now legal.”