In an editorial entitled “Voter suppression is the civil rights issue of this era,” The Washington Post tried to liken Republicans and President Trump’s bipartisan Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity as somehow tied to efforts to protect “confederate statues” and anti-civil rights Jim Crow laws.  The obvious problem with this is it was Southern Democrats who put up these statues and enacted the Jim Crow laws. 

One of the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republicans is their views on election laws.  Republicans see elections laws as tool for a level playing field where the voters decide.  Democrats see elections laws as a tool for partisan advantage to set up an unbalanced playing field.  

Today, Above the Law (ATL) published a hit piece on Michael Davis, a Colorado attorney and RNLA member who left his law practice to clerk for Justice Gorsuch when he was confirmed.  In the second sentence, ATL calls him two curse words we won’t repeat here, claiming that it is “the only conclusion one can draw” about him.

RNLA Co-Chair John Ryder has a new article in the Daily Caller that points out the truth and consequences of the left’s description of Citizens United.  Citizens United, when you get down to it, is about whether you can make a movie critical of a Presidential candidate.  (Does anyone really think that the left would make as big a deal over Citizen United if it was a movie critical of Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton?) 

Legal experts on the right and left agree on one thing: President Trump has already had an enormous impact on the federal courts and is poised to restore and bolster respect for the rule of law in the federal judiciary for many years to come: 

RNLA Advisory Council member Dan Backer wrote about the serious problems with the latest proposal to "reform" the FEC:

NRCC General Counsel and RNLA member Chris Winkelman and Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky PLLC attorney Phil Gordon wrote about the serious problems with the efficiency gap analysis used by the lower court in Gill v. Whitford, which the Supreme Court will hear next term (internal headings omitted):

A Democrat commissioner on California's analog of the FEC, the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), is under scrutiny for meeting with an outside attorney directly interested in a matter before the FPPC: 

RNLA Executive Director Michael Thielen wrote today in the Daily Caller about the recent revelations about former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's use of an email alias account at the Department of Justice:

In a welcome change from the Obama Justice Department's opposition to states' efforts to protect the integrity of their elections, the Trump Department of Justice filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court earlier this week in support of Ohio's process of removing inactive voters from the voter registration rolls: