“The Bogus Voter-Fraud Commission”
Well done NYT editorial.
Monthly Archives: July 2017
“Scaramucci: ‘Probably Some Level Of Truth’ To Claim Millions Voted Illegally”
TPM:
New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci refused on Friday to distance himself from the Trump administration’s baseless claim that 3 million illegal votes cast for Hillary Clinton lost Donald Trump the popular vote, quickly extinguishing hopes the investment-banker-turned-Trump-insider… Continue reading
“White House taps new acting ethics chief, elevating general counsel over chief of staff”
WaPo:
Shaub on Friday called Apol a “smart attorney,” but said he is concerned that his former colleague will bring a more permissive reading of federal ethics rules to the post.
When they worked together, “we balanced out one another’s… Continue reading
“A word with Kris Kobach; The voter-fraud commission relies on some really dodgy studies”
The Economist:
Research reports collected for years by the Brennan Centre for Justice at the New York University School of Law show that voter fraud in general and by non-citizens in particular is extraordinarily rare. In his own state, Mr… Continue reading
Ronald Klain on Where Trump is Making His Mark: The Judiciary
Klain in WaPo:
What about Trump? He not only put Neil M. Gorsuch in the Supreme Court vacancy created by Merrick Garland’s blocked confirmation, but he also selected 27 lower-court judges as of mid-July. Twenty-seven! That’s three times Obama’s total… Continue reading
“Hill investigators, Trump staff look to Facebook for critical answers in Russia probe”
CNN:
There are two questions. One is: Was there coordination or collusion between the campaigns and these technology tools, which overwhelmed the search engine tools so that certain stories popped up at the top of your newsfeed. The second is,… Continue reading
“This anti-voter fraud program gets it wrong over 99 percent of the time. The GOP wants to take it nationwide.”
WonkBlog:
At the inaugural meeting of President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission on Wednesday, commission Vice-Chairman Kris Kobach of Kansas praised a data collection program run by his state as a model for a national effort to root out voter fraud.… Continue reading
“Postal Service broke law in pushing time off for workers to campaign for Clinton, investigation finds”
WaPo:
The U.S. Postal Service engaged in widespread violations of federal law by pressuring managers to approve letter carriers’ taking time off last fall to campaign for Hillary Clinton and other union-backed Democrats, investigators said Wednesday.
High-level postal officials had… Continue reading
“Donald Trump Tells His Voter Fraud Panel: Find Me ‘Something’”
Michael Waldman for the Daily Beast.
“Behind the Price of Power: Q&A with former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL)”
Issue One:
To help inform Issue One’s landmark report, “The Price of Power,” we interviewed several members of our bipartisan ReFormers Caucus at-length about their experiences with fundraising and concerns with the “committee tax” imposed on lawmakers.
Every Tuesday and… Continue reading
“Trump DOJ: Trust Texas to Fix Racist Voter ID Law Without Court Oversight”
“Kobach’s Looking-Glass Commission”
Eliza Newlin Carney:
That’s why a Kobach-launched database dubbed the Interstate Crosscheck Program, designed to eliminate registrations in more than one state, is so riddled with errors. The program “promotes purging registration records that share a common name and date… Continue reading
NC Supreme Court Puts on Hold for Now Further Actions to Create New Elections/Ethics Board
Maine SOS Dunlap and Az SOS Reagan Defend Pence-Kobach Commission on PBS News Hour
Interview:
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Matthew Dunlap, what about this larger concern that has been raised by some people that this commission and its mission is going to be used to justify further national crackdown on voting rights? What do you make… Continue reading