Even partisan Democrats and professional vote fraud deniers such as Rich Hasen grudgingly admit to a potential vote fraud problem associated with vote-by-mail.  Hasen discusses it in the context of vote buying but it is a much bigger problem than that.   

Tomorrow, the RNLA will present John Ryder with the 2016 Republican Lawyer of the Year Award at a reception in Washington, DC:

Today, Donald Trump released the rest of his short list of potential nominees to fill Justice Scalia's position on the Supreme Court, supplementing the excellent list he released in May and stating that the well-qualified state and federal court judges are the only people that President Trump would consider to nominate to the Supreme Court:

After months of back and forth, the Second Circuit overturned a district court decision that had scheduled a special Republican primary on October 6 in the race for New York's 3rd congressional seat:

On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing focusing on protecting the 2016 elections from cyber and voting machine attacks

People over the age of 40 probably recall Gilda Radner’s character Miss Emily Litella on SNL.  She would harangue and spout off about a misperceived problem until her mistaken premise was corrected at which point she would abruptly squeal, “Never mind.”  She once editorialized against the harm to children due to violins on television, until corrected that the issue was violence on television.  Never mind.

In honor of Constitution Day tomorrow, we consider whether Donald Trump is a conservative who will honor the system of limited government, separation of powers, and checks and balances created by the Constitution.  RNLA member Michael Abramson argues that Mr. Trump has conservative principles but differs from most conservatives by using different language to describe his policy views:

New York Republicans are calling for an investigation of Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman after emails were uncovered showing that his campaign to silence critics of the theory of man-made global warming may have been motivated not only by his political animus but also by potential campaign donations for a gubernatorial run:

Voter ID laws have been surrounded by controversy since their very inception. Opponents of the laws will argue that requiring an ID will impede the fundamental right to vote, but have no argument about the other equally fundamental rights that do require ID. 

The Public Interest Legal Foundation has discovered that hundreds of non-citizens were removed from the voter registration rolls in Alexandria, Virginia.  The city refuses to disclose whether any of those non-citizens voted in any elections and it is unclear whether the city has forwarded the names to law enforcement authorities: