A major bipartisan commission that includes prominent Democrats and Republicans issues a report making recommendations to improve our elections. However, over time some Democrats and the far left not only disagree with the report, they label all those who attempt to implement many of its recommendations (even fellow Democrats) as in favor of voter suppression and either state or imply that they are “racist.”

Following up on the thoughtful piece by Professors Eugene Kontorovich and John McGinnis or early voting, J. Christian Adams writes eight reasons against early voting.  While the professors laid out the case against early voting from a civic duty and traditional angle, Adams goes after early voting by undercutting the very reason its proponents are advocating it.

Despite the President’s recent reassurances, Americans continue to question how much government snooping is acceptable in a free society. But in the political arena, the spooks don’t need clandestine technology to monitor our every move. They ply their trade in election boards and commissions throughout the country. No matter how minuscule the expenditure, obscure the speaker, or trivial the issue, political activity is forcibly registered, catalogued, categorized, and published.

On the most basic level an Attorney General is the leading law enforcement official for the state or country.  He is most definitely not a legislator or governor.  Yet as Colorado Attorney General John Suthers points out that is what many Attorneys General are becoming:

A New Hampshire editorial pointed out yet another ironic vote fraud case:

Professors Eugene Kontorovich and John McGinnis have a very thoughtful article on the subject of early voting. One of their points is as follows:

 A few reactions to the State of the Union from the perspective of the law.  First off some of the key legal excerpts from the speech are here onProfessor Josh Blackman’s blog. 

While New York is definitely the reigning king of vote fraud since they not only commit rampant vote fraud they try to put the police in jail for exposing it; Texas is moving up with yet more allegations of vote fraud.  While the clip in the link tells more of the story, here is a quote:

Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center recently criticized Citizens United v. FEC in a four-year-anniversary piece. Ms. McGehee described what she views as several constitutional defects with the majority decision and its subsequent deleterious effects on American democracy.

Today’s Obominaition is short and to the point.  Please see the following article on an Obama nominee to be Ambassador to Norway who so poorly prepared as to be an embarrassment and an insult to the people of Norway.