Zombies, who just won't stay in the graveyard, are back with us again, and not just on the screen in "World War Z" and "The Walking Dead." It turns out that 1,100 of the dearly departed are active in Maryland politics. Maybe lots more than that. The nonpartisan watchdog group Election Integrity Maryland sampled 36,000 names on the state's voter rolls and counted 1,100 who had gone to a better precinct in the sky.
On July 18, 2013, ACRU Policy Board member J. Christian Adams delivered the following testimony on the Voting Rights Act before the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
The Left's strategy for unhindered political power continues to be refined, says a new report from Capital Research Center. In this electoral juggernaut, an increasing role is played by statewide networks of nonprofits that battle in the fields of media, the courts, think tanks, and grassroots organizing. Colorado was one of the first states to fall, but now the Left has its sights set on no less than Texas.
As President Obama and his family tour Africa, the White House put out a Fact Sheet that touts a $53 million program in Kenya that helps young people "obtain National identification cards, a prerequisite to voter registration."
The Supreme Court has decided Shelby v. Holder. It is one of the most important decisions in decades. Now, federal preclearance of state election procedures seems to be forever dead and buried. While some Congressional Republicans had vowed to enact new legislation to "fix" any coverage formula deemed unconstitutional, the Court opinion today offers almost no room to do so.
Conservatives are launching a multi-track strategy in the wake of the Supreme Court's striking down Arizona's proof of U.S. citizenship requirement for voting last week.
Speaking at Netroots, the annual gathering of left wing bloggers, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said voter ID laws should be abolished because they put transgendered Americans at a disadvantage.
ACRU Policy Board member J. Christian Adams has written an extensive survey of state action on voter ID laws in a new white paper for the Federalist Society.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted released a report on May 23 on the 2012 election that liberals claim shows no threat of serious vote fraud in the Buckeye State. For perspective, here's a line from an article from the Wall Street Journal Political Diary, August 4, 2011: "It's somewhat surprising to see a Republican secretary of state, Ohio's Jon Husted, effectively kill a nascent voter ID law before it was put to a vote in the Republican-controlled state Senate."
A lawyer who resigned in protest from his government job took his message of an out-of-control Justice Department to the Port City on May 21, 2013, focusing on several Alabama anecdotes. J. Christian Adams spoke to the Mobile chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, about an ends-justifies-the-means mentality that he contends has infected the Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder. Adams, author of "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department," rose to prominence in 2010 after alleging that political considerations scuttled the prosecution of members of the New Black Panther Party accused of intimidating white voters in Philadelphia during the 2008 election. Adams said Holder and political appointees are undermining the rule of law. The framers drafted the Constitution to prevent that kind of corruption, he said. "They had these guys in mind," he said. Adams discussed three parts of his book dealing with Alabama - its history of voter fraud, its inflated voter registration rolls and its attempt to enact a voter identification law. Adams cited Perry and Hale counties, both of which have a history of voter fraud - particularly with respect to absentee voting. He said "wranglers" have filled out absentee ballots in local elections and coerced residents to sign them "by the hundreds."