Control of Virginia House of Delegates Still Hangs in the Balance
After Virginia's state and local elections on November 7, there were four extremely close House of Delegates' races. Here is what happened and the status of each of them:
Read moreRNLA Thanks Senator Orrin Hatch
Today, Senator Orrin Hatch announced his retirement at the end of this term.
RNLA Executive Director Michael Thielen said: “Orrin Hatch has long has been a great friend of the RNLA since our founding in 1985. It was Senator Hatch who first said: ‘If you are a lawyer and you are a Republican, you should be a member of the Republican National Lawyers Association.’ Thank you Senator Hatch.”
Read morePart 2: Top Blog Posts of 2017 - Democrats' Unprecedented Obstructionism
Last Friday, we had the top posts of the year, numbers 10-6. Today, it is the top 5 posts that unfortunately have a common theme: Democrats' hyper-partisan obstruction of the Trump Administration. This is so over the top it would be funny if it was not hurting the governing of our country. The number one post shows the complete hypocrisy of the Democrats opposition to the Trump Administration. They are hurting good people for the sake of appeasing their far-left base.
Read moreDepartment of the Interior Rescinds Obama-Era Interpretation That Would Make Nearly All Americans Criminals
Last week, the Department of the Interior (DOI) took a little-known but important step to undo an eleventh-hour expansion of the law by the Obama Administration. In a memorandum issued January 10, 2017, the DOI Solicitor determined that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) prohibits the accidental or "incidental" taking of migratory birds. The practical effects of this opinion were very broad, but fortunately it was suspended pending review on February, and the DOI Solicitor officially rescinded it last Friday.
Read moreFree Speech v. Union Dues: The Right Not to Pay Union Dues - SCOTUS to Decide
Looking forward to next year, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments on a free speech case at the end of February. The case seems simple: can unions force a non-member to pay dues when the non-member disagrees and does not support what the union espouses? However, it is pitting two giants of American society against one another in a novel way.
Read moreThe High Price of Democrat Obstruction
Senator James Lankford went to the Senate floor and laid out the case against the unprecedented Democrat Obstruction of President Trump’s nominees. We are not talking high profile nominees like Supreme Court Justices or Cabinet Secretaries, but basically all the ones appointed by the President that need to be confirmed by the Senate.
Read morePart 1: Top Blog Posts of 2017 - Gorsuch and Fake Election Law News
Today and next Friday, the RNLA will highlight the top blog posts of the Republican Lawyer Blog for 2017. This is part 1: Top RepLawyer Posts for 2017, numbers 10-6. Today’s post will focus on Justice Neil Gorsuch and election law. No reasonable lawyers’ group can look back on 2017 and not celebrate the confirmation of Justice Gorsuch. On elections, it is unfortunate that Democrats continue to use the race card and fight against those trying to make elections more open, fair, and honest for all.
Read moreICYMI: GSA May Have Improperly Disclosed Privileged and Confidential Documents to Special Counsel
The General Services Administration (GSA) may have improperly turned over documents, including private and privileged documents, from the Trump transition team to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. RNLA member Kory Langhofer, counsel to Trump for America (TFA), the 501(c)(4) organization that supported the Trump Presidential transition, wrote:
Read moreMore Non-Citizens May Be Registered to Vote in Pennsylvania Than Initial Reports Indicated
The latest from the non-citizen voter registration problems in Pennsylvania is that the problem could be much larger than initially thought. Back in September, Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt reported that 220 non-citizens registered to vote in Philadelphia through a "glitch" at the DMV that allowed persons to register to vote after they had proven that they were non-citizens. 41% had voted at least once.
Read moreICYMI: America’s Most Incompetent or Corrupt Election Official?
A very famous election lawyer once told me: in elections it is “sometimes hard to tell where the incompetence ends and the fraud begins.” In Florida, Broward County Election Official Brenda Snipes may be the poster child for this saying. Earlier this year, Brenda Snipes confirmed the fact that non-citizens and ineligible felons were voting in Broward County. Last year, Snipes “engaged in ongoing violations of Florida law governing the canvassing of vote-by-mail ballots [absentee ballots]. [T]ens of thousands of vote-by-mail ballots in Broward County are being opened by your staff: (1) before they have been canvassed by the county canvassing board; and (2) without providing the public the opportunity to review or file a protest against the canvass of a ballot believed to be legally deficient.”
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