Eric Holder’s bad week just got worse.
Judge Hinkle was not an unreserved supporter of the Florida program, but he rejected the legal basis for the DOJ challenge. The National Voter Registration Act specifies a 90-day “safe window” before elections, in which voter registration cannot be changed by the state, but Hinkle found that this provision “did not apply to removing non-citizens from the rolls.”
He went on to say that “Determining citizenship is not as easy as the state would have it. Questioning someone’s citizenship isn’t as trivial as the state would have it.” Of course, the state of Florida was perfectly aware of that, which is why they attempted to gain access to the far more accurate data maintained by the Department of Homeland Security, only to be illegally refused by the Obama Administration. That’s one of the reasons it took so long to winnow the original list of 180,000 questionable voters down to the 2,600 letters of challenge that were actually sent. Florida’s lawsuit against the DHS over this refusal is still pending.
The post notes a bit of Obama administration lawlessness that hasn’t generated much press yet: Florida sought access to the DHS SAVE database, which DHS is required by law to provide to the states. But DHS refused to provide that access to Florida.
this will make things entertaining
Indeed.
Dept. of INjustice is more like it. how can the dept (made up of lawyers, licensed I take it} do what they are doing….oh never mind….I know, I know……
You think that just maybe people are tired of this DOJ fighting everyone everwhere? What true blooded American wants undocumented and illegal voters voting and shaping laws that go against their conscience and morals? I think even the judges are tired of this DOJ interferrence in every states opposition to their lawlessness. An individual or state that has no recourse within the legal system means that we have not a democracy nor a republic, but a tyrannical government. Citizens have the right to sue any entity that it feels violated their right or were injured due to negligence, but a state cannot create a law that affirms the federal law when the feds choose not to follow law.
If you’ve ever wondered what a good old Chicago-style Daley Presidency would look like, this is it.
Utterly lawless, devoted to rewarding friends and punishing enemies, full stop.
Given this administration’s history of handling setbacks with aggressive counter attacks and ignoring court rulings and the law, I suspect they already have a plan to violate this ruling as well. It will be interesting to see what they come up with not to cooperate with Florida or other states trying to make sure the elections are clean.
President Lincoln, in the Emancipation Proclamation, declared that a certain class of (pro-slavery) States to ‘be in rebellion’ to the federal Union, a union brought together by the States and governed by our constitution. It was an attempt to hold the Union together, making secession illegal. It would seem the consequences went far beyond that.
Approximately 155 years later… we have a federal government which I would now describe as being in rebellion to the constitution. Unfortunately, with a bureaucracy intertwined in every aspect of life in this country, governed by a tyrannical administrations (Patriot Act, NDAA, recent EPA rulings…) headed by an executive branch and DOJ clearly in rebellion to the constitution, exercising extra-judicial powers and ruling by decree, it is going to take more that one such ruling to stem the flood of rebellion being practiced by our federal government.
But, this is a good start. Time for all the States to step up to the plate.