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. 

The RNLA is currently reviewing and analyzing the Report of the Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration released yesterday. The RNLA intends to utilize the unique and broad experience of its members to determine the merits of the Commissions various recommendations.  

A New York Republican activist is blowing the whistle on an Obama crony. Republican leader E. O'Brien Murray recently made a Hatch Act compliant against the US Ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard. Previously, Gaspard was a close advisor to President Obama who led Obama's political affairs office before being installed by the president as the executive director of the Democratic National Committee.

Why is voting in Germany at the polls free of Fraud?  In part, because they require ID and have a transparent process.

Attorney General Eric Holder is being called lawless, threatened with impeachment, and generally regarded as out of control.  Yet there are efforts to give his Department even more money in the latest Omnibus Appropriations proposal. 

In December the FEC finally voted, deadlocking 3-3, in the protracted Crossroads GPS case. The inquiry into whether the group must register with the FEC as a political action committee is now closed. The result is a victory for all grassroots organizations wishing include express advocacy as part of their overall political strategy.

The vote fraud deniers on the left have ignored the vote fraud in New York to such an extent that election officials feel comfortable asking authorities to prosecute police for uncovering the fraud.  I wonder how the left will ignore the vote fraud reported in their bible, the New York Times, yesterday.