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. 

While much has rightly been made of Debo Adegbile -- President Obama’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division -- representation of radical cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, there are a number of other reasons that make his nomination extremely troubling. 

When a Milwaukee Police Task Force on the 2004 Election released the most comprehensive and non-partisan study of vote fraud, the left attacked . . .  the studies release!  They also attacked the police for recommending an end to same day registration as the best way to stop vote fraud or failing that, real photo ID.  The left again did not attack the substance of the police recommendations or factual findings but instead said it was wrong for the police to make policy recommendations or release a report.

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While the Eric Holder led Department of Justice is fighting against voter ID in North Carolina denying any fraud ever happens in North Carolina, state officials are taking the opposite view.  A recent local election was so ripe with vote fraud state officials had to step in and order a “do over.”

Today we want to spotlight the effort for photo ID in Ohio and what that can mean to the poor. Ohio State Rep. John Becker wrote an op-ed for Clevland.com on the need for voter ID:

The Brennan Center for Justice has made its mission to deny and ignore vote fraud as part of its efforts to support the Democratic Party. One of its leaders, Myrna Perez, has even been nominated to be a Democrat commissioner at the Election Assistance Commission. Part of this effort is the attempt to define vote fraud as merely impersonation, saying that such fraud is virtually impossible and rare.  Well in the Brennan Center’s own neighborhood of New York City, a neutral police agency found out just how easy voter impersonation is to do: