The Federalist Society’s Jeff Dinwoodie recently hosted three former Securities and Exchange Commission commissioners to discuss past and future issues at the powerful financial agency. Troy Paredes, Annette Nazareth, and Paul Atkins graded the commission on various issues ranging from Dodd-Frank to esoteric oversight boards.  

No, this is not a spinoff of AMC’s popular T.V. show. This is reality, one that the left is far too quick to dismiss and consistently claims does not occur.  Voters in California have somehow been coming back from the dead in order to cast their ballots for years. The report was aired by a CBS station in LA (Channel 2).

Breaking news today: Virginia Delegate Rob Bell shared an update on the now pending litigation with regard to Governor Terry McAuliffe’s unconstitutional blanket reinstatement of all felon’s voting rights just prior to the presidential election. The Virginia Supreme Court announced that it will hold a special session to hear the suit. The petition can be found here: Howell v. McAuliffe. We discussed the pending suit last week as well as the fact that McAuliffe has recently come under investigation by the FBI for questionable donations to his gubernatorial campaign. 

Illinois is the latest state seeking to remove citizens' ability to choose to register to vote or be involved in the electoral process in general. Senate Bill 0250 seeks to automatically enroll individuals to vote when they interact with one of five state agencies. Illinois already has a voter registration process in place and the State Board of Elections is opposed to the legislation.

In an early summer edition of The Republican Lawyer newsletter this week, RNLA President Larry Levy urged Republicans to support Donald Trump, noting that his release of a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees should reassure Republican lawyers of the principled kind of judge that Trump would appoint at all levels of the judiciary:

RNLA remembers and honors Carl M. Buchholz, a prominent Republican lawyer and RNLA member, after his untimely passing.  From Ron Hicks, RNLA Vice President for Communications:

Well, I’m Lee Goodman, I’m Chairman of the Federal Election Committee and I’m here to help.  – Lee Goodman, LPAC 2014

Yesterday, we discussed some of the recent problems for Governor Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. The staunch “Crooked Hillary” minion McAuliffe has recently come under investigation by the FBI for donations to his gubernatorial campaign. CNN published an article detailing what is known about the investigation up to this point.

A “Crooked Hillary” lackey, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, is having a rough week and it’s mostly self-inflicted. The Governor has recently come under investigation by the FBI for donations to his gubernatorial campaign (more on that in a later post).

In an astounding, unprecedented rebuke of the Department of Justice and its attorneys, Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued an order sanctioning the DOJ attorneys for their conduct in U.S. v. Texas, the challenge by 26 states to Obama's immigration policies.  Judge Hanen found that they deliberately and repeatedly misled and lied to the court, violating ethical rules: