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Related: About this forumTea Party threatens Lawsuit in MS
Tea Party group hires elections lawyer[/link] in advance of GOP Senate runoff in Mississippi. This race is looking better and better for Travis Childers.
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Tea Party threatens Lawsuit in MS (Original Post)
mississippi62
Jun 2014
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Gothmog
(145,063 posts)1. J. Christian Adams is a hack and bad lawyer
The lawyer hired is an idiot whose legal analysis was debunked by Prof. Hasen http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62528 Adams is an idiot
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)2. And it would seem ...
The proper answer to the "do you intend to support the nominated candidate" question is, "that is none of your business ... ballots are cast in secret; such a declaration violates that principle. Now give me a ballot and get out of my way."
KinMd
(966 posts)3. Thought they were all against "frivolous" lawsuits
jmowreader
(50,549 posts)4. "Frivolous" depends on who you talk to
To a teabagger or a sovereign, no lawsuit they file is ever frivolous. Any lawsuit filed against them is frivolous.
mississippi62
(75 posts)5. Chris Adams hates voting rights
from Gothmog
Christian Adams is the idiot hired by Monica Goodman and von Spakovsky to gut the DOJ voting rights section. Under Bush, the Voting Right Sections was essentially dismantled to a large degree. Adams could have never been hired without the bush appointees using political criteria to hire this idiot. Bush political appointees overruled the DOJ staff on issues such as redistricting and the Georgia voter id law. Here are some excerpts from the Inspector General report[/link]
The record of political bias in the Justice Departments voting section during President George W. Bushs administration is well-known. (The departments voting section is charged with enforcing the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting laws.) We know from earlier reports that election officials, including Monica Goodling, went on a hiring binge to hire conservative attorneys to work in the section and, in the words of Bush appointee Bradley Schlozman, to gerrymander all those crazy libs right out of the section. We know that senior Justice Department officials in the Bush era, including Hans von Spakovsky, overruled the recommendations of career civil-service attorneys in the section to approve Georgias controversial voter identification law. And we know that the Justice Department during the Bush era made decisions widely perceived to help Republicans, such as approving Texass mid-decade re-redistricting of its congressional seats to create more safe Republican seats, an effort partially overturned by the Supreme Court after finding it violated the Voting Rights Act.
There is no way that an idiot like Christian Adams could have been hired without the aid of von Spakovsky and Schlozman.
The record of political bias in the Justice Departments voting section during President George W. Bushs administration is well-known. (The departments voting section is charged with enforcing the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting laws.) We know from earlier reports that election officials, including Monica Goodling, went on a hiring binge to hire conservative attorneys to work in the section and, in the words of Bush appointee Bradley Schlozman, to gerrymander all those crazy libs right out of the section. We know that senior Justice Department officials in the Bush era, including Hans von Spakovsky, overruled the recommendations of career civil-service attorneys in the section to approve Georgias controversial voter identification law. And we know that the Justice Department during the Bush era made decisions widely perceived to help Republicans, such as approving Texass mid-decade re-redistricting of its congressional seats to create more safe Republican seats, an effort partially overturned by the Supreme Court after finding it violated the Voting Rights Act.
There is no way that an idiot like Christian Adams could have been hired without the aid of von Spakovsky and Schlozman.