The political landscape was shaken yesterday in a Court decision that was a major defeat for the Obama Administration. 

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) doesn’t like playing defense. After FEC Commissioner Lee E. Goodman slammed the agitprop group for a speech-stifling proposal during last week’s FEC hearing, indignation ensued. In short order, the self-styled “watchdog” produced an umbrage-taking blog post and tweet.

Hans A. von Spakovsky, former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, and Roger Clegg, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, have written a fascinating Legal Memorandum on Felon Voting.  While part of the Legal Memorandum discusses a specific bill, it makes some very important larger points on felon voting. 

Just like President Obama’s nomination of the completely unqualified Matthew Butler to the Federal Election Assistance Commission, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe recently nominated Matthew Gray to the Virginia Board of Elections. 

Two former Justice Department employees under President George W. Bush have written articles this week that point out President Obama lied in his state of the union.  President Obama said in his State of the Union stated:

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse attacked the second day of the Loretta Lynch hearings for examining the record of Eric Holder.  Holder’s Justice Department is one of the most political in history and we have only scratched the surface of what may be going on during his tenure.  It seems relevant to examine if Lynch has the ability and desire to address these many serious and deep problems.  As Chairman Grassley responded:

Professor Ronald Rotunda has written an outstanding article on the US House’s lawsuit against the President.  Rotunda begins by asking a simple question if this lawsuit is so frivolous as its detractors claim, why are they putting on so much effort into stopping a law firm from representing the House?

While generally appearing smooth and composed, the substance of some Ms. Lynch's answers were very troubling.  

Today at 10 a.m. eastern begins the hearings to replace arguably the most partisan Attorney General in History.  Loretta Lynch should be highly scrutinized to ensure she will not continue the shameful practices of Eric Holder.  A number of questions that she should answer.

Sometimes we are reluctant to talk about vote fraud for we may give some on the left new ideas.  A great example of that is the infamous messenger ballot system used in New Jersey.  As the Press of Atlantic City details in an editorial entitled “Messenger ballots/Invitation to fraud”: