The Left Owns the Election Law Industry

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Conservative public interest groups occasionally dabble in election matters.  But their efforts, primarily defending Voting Rights Act vote dilution lawsuits, have dismal success rates. The most effective conservative election law effort has been jockeyed by Edward Blum of the American Enterprise Institute. He has bankrolled challenges to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and ensured that brilliant election litigators like Mike Carvin of Jones Day have what they need.  But this is one tiny area that barely scratches the surface of the problem.

All of the prevailing winds in election law blow from the left.  Instead of condemning New Black Panther Voter intimidation, Kristen Clarke of the NAACP LDF, defended it by seeking to have the Justice Department lawsuit dismissed. Instead of purging Michigan voter rolls of dead and ineligible felons, the Advancement Project sued Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land to stop any purge ahead of the 2008 presidential election. Instead of Georgia enforcing a voter photo identification law, the American Civil Liberties Union sues to stop it. Instead of Arizona ensuring that all voter applications are submitted by eligible citizens, groups like the Brennan Center for Justice and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund have successfully undermined the law.

What lawyers oppose the Advancement Project, ACLU, MALDEF, the Brennan Center, Project Vote, Demos, LULAC and the NAACP when they bring these suits?  Often it is government attorneys who rarely litigate such weighty election battles. Sometimes the government lawyers are sympathetic to the plaintiffs.

Millions of leftist dollars pour into election law wars before the lawsuits are brought. After the lawsuits are brought, the leftist groups intervene and swarm like sharks around a flailing victim. Just look at the pleadings and amicus briefs submitted in any major election law dispute. Not surprisingly, the victims often succumb, or accept their fate and die. The Rule of Law often dies along with it.

Leftist election litigators even have their own training academies.  One is the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.  Dozens of lawyers at the most militant groups in the country cut their teeth in the Voting Section at DOJ where I used to work.

After the Obama administration took control of the division in 2009, Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King returned to the Clinton-era policy of refusing to hire anyone but leftists to work in the Voting Section.  She implemented policies that placed prior employment with leftist organizations as a uniquely qualifying factor in being hired – even if it was as a volunteer.  Only leftists need apply to enforce federal election laws before 2012.

Since the inauguration, the Voting Section at DOJ has seen a hiring blitz of lawyers from the SEIU, Advancement Project, Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, international communist groups, the NAACP, as well as those who provided pro bono representation to GITMO detainees.  I have reviewed the resumes of every new attorney hire, and they do not contain a single lawyer with a non-ideological or conservative background.

As such, the Obama Justice Department has blocked requirements in Georgia that voters establish they are United States citizens, has sued Rhode Island and Louisiana demanding sweeping changes to push welfare recipients and drug addicts onto the voter rolls, and has failed to bring any lawsuits under federal law to ensure the voter rolls are free from dead and ineligible felons.

The election next year will determine the fate of a nation in a way few elections have.  Unfortunately, the election law practitioners who represent the far-left fringe have a mighty head start.  Whether they are DOJ attorneys turning a blind eye toward anti-Semitic New Black Panthers, or Soros-funded crusaders enabling voter fraud, hundreds of lawyers will cloak themselves in neutrality while working hard to obtain a particular outcome next November.  Nobody should be surprised when they employ every means necessary to achieve exactly what they seek.

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  • Fred Dawes

    You don't really think the vote means nothing thing do you? just look at obama?

    the vote is just away to keep you in line for the next butt tokeep you in line for the BIg rape, our government is like a prison rape gang and any who will no see what is government is must like the gang rape, right now the butt in government are telling you our great system of checks and balances are wrong and evil but the butts want is something like the system of the Third Reich.

    and most of you will go-along to get-along like in 1933, sad fact is this time we will see no equal forces to beat back the enemies of life.

  • StephenD

    I picture it as if you have a hobo grabbed onto your leg while you are striding toward your work. In order to get anywhere you MUST slow down and deal with him. He gets what he wants. Your momentum is slowed and sometimes stopped entirely. To continue, you placate or even give into his request/demands and even give money. I would say the best effort would be to somehow place an obstacle in his path BEFORE he can latch on. Hoe this can be accomplished is beyond me. Maybe gain control of both the House and Senate along with the W.H. and get some reform in place?

  • mrbean

    Leftists know tha requiring an proving your elligibility to vote is going to hurt the Democrats at the polls. Well, why would that be? Could it be that Democrats are the ones to benefit most from voter fraud? Who can forget the 2008 Minnesota Senate race, won by Al Franken, in which it was discovered after the election that in some districts there were more votes cast than there were eligible voters in the district. Amazingly, nearly all of the fraudulent votes were cast for Franken in a race that was essentially a 50-50 race – a statistical impossibility. Imagine, objecting to requiring individuals to present photo identification at the polls before voting to prove who they are. Typically leftist.

  • StephenD

    I'd like for the requirement to vote to include proof that you paid taxes. (W-2 perhaps?).
    My feeling is that if you don't pay into the system you should have no say as to how it is spent. There would go the base for those that support entitlement programs ad infinitum.

  • patriotwork

    Glad J. Christian Adams decided to emerge from out of the leftist slim by which he had been hidden. He seems to be intellligent, logical, knowledgeable, and well-spoken, a heavy-weight, and on the side of integrity. This country needs him and a lot more like him.

    • winoceros

      He has one of the more uphill battles out there right now, and as long as they don't try to silence him (hope he believes in the 2nd), his is an important voice.

      He should be writing to the memberships of AMAC and AARP. He'll need a ruse for AARP, but I'll bet he could get this article to them.

  • Davidka

    In addition, the left has invested huge resources in trying to capture control of the Secretary of State office in each state, and has succeeded in many cases. This obscure but extremely important office runs the elections in every state and has a shocking amount of discretion and authority. Don't expect any honest decisions from the secretaries of state that Soros/B.O. have put in office.

  • mlcblog

    I am glad you are writing this. I have long decried the obvious grabbing of close elections by the Dems. For years I have watched this, most notably when DiFi overrode Mr. Huffington by about 30,000 "found" ballots. That was long ago, when Arianna was still calling herself a conservative and before she started running her news blab. I know it was Calif but it reminded me of Chicago. Now it seems it's everywhere in the country which is why we need to really get out there and bring in landslide returns.

  • http://callofthepatriot.blogspot.com PatriotUSA

    It is way past time for us who loathe the leftist progressive machine and their march to force our country into the trash heap of history like England and Europe are now teetering on the edge of falling into. The failure of a leftarded, socialist,. progressive welfare state cannot and never will be successful. One only needs to look at history.

    Any and all MUST re-post and share this as time is of the essence and next year's election is fast approaching and the left will do any and everything to steal and rip this election into the liberals corrupt and cheating hands.

  • http://class-factotum.blogspot.com/ class factotum

    "I'd like for the requirement to vote to include proof that you paid taxes"

    No representation without taxation!

  • 13Sisters76

    Nothing has changed for the demonRATs since Teapot Dome. They are experts at voter fraud, so the people in the states need to become experts at thwarting them.

  • mrbean

    Billionaire Warren Buffett urged U.S. lawmakers Monday to raise taxes on the country's super-rich to help cut the budget deficit, saying such a move will not hurt investments.
    "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice," The 80-year-old "Oracle of Omaha" wrote in an opinion article in The New York Times.

    Yes Comrade Buffet, class warfare for the greater glory of Chairman Obama. That is what happens when rich guys send their kids to Ivy League schools and they come back little Marxists and make Daddy feel guilty about being rich.

  • bshade

    Mr. J. Christian Abrams–we need you to help us! You know exactly what is going on —on the inside! First hand! And you are a man of integrity to speak the truth about the illegal goings-on in our so-called Dept. of Justice.
    You have a mission–to help us to protect the integrity of the next election.. and to do everything we can to make it the most honest election possible. The left has been working on these things since the 1960's and they will lie, cheat, and steal to achieve their goals of a totalitarian regime to bring down the US.
    Your counsel is of extreme importance. How do we the taxpaying American citizens who are so reviled by this administration-able to put in place security and protections to prevent voter fraud, such as, ballots found in the trunks of cars at the last minute, dead people voting, buses hauling in mobs at the last minute–were they all registered?
    One recent mayoral election had the Republican candidate 51-49 winning the whole time until the last 5-10 minutes when it suddenly changed to 51-49 to the democrat, and we were told that there were buses coming in at the last minute!

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    I can’t believe it. Warren Buffett’s op-ed was pure political garbage. If he wants to pay more taxes no one is stopping him. Does he really think The President can spend the cash better than he can?

  • Barbara With

    This article is so filled with erroneous propaganda its amazing it even stays on the page. Quote me the laws that prosecute “election fraud” (having a hard time holding those accountable for manufacture of the corruptible voting machines? Yeah me too) and then spin the tail that protecting the voting rights of Americans is actually a left wing conspiracy, now who needs to tin hats? Looks like you! What planet do you people live on? Every american gets the right to vote. No, not if they pay taxes, no not if they own land. You nor do any of your mono-party supporters have the right to tell us who is “allowed” to vote and who isn’t. “Voter” fraud is so small its like trying to swat one gnat. ELECTION fraud however, perpetrated mostly by the right, is rampant in our election systems. Do your homework and then start to work for clean elections. Oh wait that’s right, clean elections would mean everyone would vote, even those who vote Democrat. Horrible right? Pesky two party checks and balances. I realize it doesn’t fit with the Republican Tea Party vision of the world but as long as we all live in it, so it shall be.

    • Chisco

      AGuess you can see how "small" a problem voter fraud is now, huh?! I guess all those precincts with ONLY obama votes and not even ONE vote for Mitt Romney are "realistic results" that would pass the statistical "smell test", right?! (In your world, they would, of course!)

      Oh, and don't forget the swing states where counties had MORE votes cast THAN the number of registered voters living in each of those counties! Nah, that was just a "really successful voter turnout" wasn't it?!!

      But, it got "DA WUN" [s]"elected", so that's all that matters to the lib-tators because "the ends justify the means" for them!

      Now, it will be up to the rest of us TO MAKE YOU OWN THE RESULTS, so that we can boot their asses OUT of office in the NEXT election — (if our country survives 4 years of an obama-generated hell)

  • Action Now

    It's no secret that the left wing dominates government and education. It's an outrage that conservatives must pay taxes to fund these institutions, but are denied the opportunity for employment and leadership in these same institutions. It is not possible presently to reverse this egregious situation at the federal level, but conservatives have ample power in Red States to fashion remedies. To start, conservative lawmakers in Red States should enact legislation that gives conservatives the right to sue taxpayer funded institutions that discriminate against conservatives in hiring, promotion, and other matters. The remedies should include actual and punitive damages, legal fees, and goals and time tables for achieving political diversity in proportion to the Red State's population as a whole. It's especially important to give individuals the right to sue, as the State's attorney general office is unlikely to bring lawsuits on behalf of conservatives given that the left dominates the ranks of such institutions.

    • P. M.

      Perhaps it IS time for young conservatives to engage in the liberal game — go "underground" into groups like "democratunderground.com" and start "playing the role" of liberals — get the jobs and sabotage the group from the inside….(be the parasite-antidote to the parasite that is killing our country/host!!)

  • Bill

    I know conservatives are busy with jobs and families, etc. but reading an article like this i can't help thinking of Casey Stengal's comments about the expansion team Mets: "Doesn't anyone here know how to play this game?" Thanks Mr. Adams for jabbing us a ways up the learning curve.

  • Cincinnatus

    These electronic voting machines have to go.

  • Warlord

    It seems at times the only way to bring America back is to have a revolution. People will die in droves to re right the ship of state, and bring America back to a position of respect and dominance on the world stage.
    It will be neighbor against neighbor, to sort out blue from red.