Not Worried About Aliens Voting? Think Again. Then Think Harder…

IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE mostly good news for election integrity advocates, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton upheld most of new Arizona laws in 2022 requiring proof of citizenship to vote in the state. New state law would mandate counties verify registered voters who haven’t provided proof of U.S. citizenship and cross-check voter registration data with various government databases. They were enacted as a direct result of Republican concerns over the authenticity of Biden’s 2020 ‘victory’ over Trump in Arizona. Voting ‘rights’ groups would have nothing of it, however, and neither would the D.O.J. or Democratic National Committee. They sued.

Suit was brought alleging the new laws were discriminatory, but the argument was rejected by Judge Bolton because the state has an interest in preventing voter fraud; in not allowing non-citizens to vote; and in promoting public confidence in election integrity. She did, however, limit the state from mandating a state registration form asking for a registrant’s state or country of birth because she found it to violate provisions of Civil Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act. Using the form would result in the investigation of only naturalized citizens based on a county recorder’s subjective belief that the registrant is a non-citizen. So far, so good.

Bolton has ruled on voting cases in the past. Without getting into the weeds of it, these opinions dealt with differing forms required for federal and state voter registrations. She ruled that if one used the federal form, the state could not require anything further in terms of proof of citizenship from Arizona voters voting in federal elections pursuant to a 1993 federal voter registration law.  (The Supreme Court has made a similar holding in 2013.) 

What does the federal form require? NOTHING, except a requirement a registrant ‘swear’ they are U.S. citizens. So that means illegal aliens who broke the law by entering the country won’t break the law when they falsely swear they are citizens on their voter registration forms? Are you frigging kidding me? WTF?!

The Order in Mi Familia Vota v. Fontes is here.  Bolton wrote: 

“The court finds that though it may occur, non-citizens voting in Arizona is quite rare, and non-citizen voter fraud in Arizona is rarer still,” the ruling states. “But while the voting laws are not likely to meaningfully reduce possible non-citizen voting in Arizona, they could help to prevent non-citizens from registering or voting.”

Right result. Wrong rationale. It makes no sense to say that non-citizens voting is rare, but non-citizen voter fraud is rarer. After all, a non-citizen voting is per se voter fraud. But I won’t quibble: at least the state-level safeguards against non-citizen voter fraud have been hardened.

Trying Trump in Abstentia: THAT Sounds Fair…

ALL SUBSTANTIVE PROCEEDINGS against 45th President Donald Trump in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that were brought by special prosecutor, Jack Smith, were ordered to be stayed pending further order of the court. Unfortunately, Smith didn’t get the memo accompanying said order, and now, Trump wants the court to hold Smith in contempt for his failure to comply. The Motion to Show Cause is here. 

Minimally, the case encompasses issues on presidential immunity, the Impeachment Judgment Clause, and double jeopardy and cannot be tried quickly. The immunity issue is more a novel issue of law than of fact, and untested with potentially far-reaching ramifications for future presidents.

Had ‘quick’ been what Smith really wanted, he could have brought the case much sooner. The stay order is “clear, straightforward, and unambiguous.” The stay was issued to prevent the case from moving closer to trial prior to the presidential election or “impose additional burdens of litigation on Defendant [Trump].” Read Indictment here.

Yet the prosecution team served almost 4,000 pages of additional discovery and draft exhibit lists shortly after the stay order issued. The Trump team responded by observing the actions violated the stay and if it happened again, the team would seek judicial relief. The prosecution again violated the stay, ignoring Trump’s warning, by filing “an expansive motion in limine” less than ten days later. Since motions generally warrant a response, usually within ten days, this wasn’t sent to Trump simply as a courtesy to tip him off on what prosecutors may want at an unspecified time in the future. It seems Smith wants to try Trump in abstentia in spite of the order.

In fact, Smith has tried to floor the accelerator of a figurative Ferrari in getting a case to trial that, at best, travels at pedestrian speed. He attempted to bypass the usual appellate process to by bypassing the appeals court and instead, get the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in so he could meet his hoped-for trial date of March 4th, which would be impossible under even the best of circumstances. (The Court properly declined.)

Smith has fast-tracked the case on his own initiative for the transparent pretext of wanting to taint Trump at trial in hopes of preventing him from successfully competing in the G.O.P. primary and later, the presidential election. It is no secret the Trump team views Smith as a partisan hack who is trying to turn the court into “an arm of the Biden Campaign.”  (He is.)

Meanwhile, some say Smith doesn’t have the authority to try Trump anyway, which could put a break on Smith’s Ferrari once and for all, sending all its component  parts to the boneyard where they belong. Trump’s team wants the prosecutors held in contempt, withdraw their Motion and productions, reordered to not file pleadings or produce evidence without expressed permission of the court, and assessed monetary damages for reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses related to this pleading. 

Big Bucks. Big Fraud?

IT DID NOT TAKE LONG for James O’Keefe to get his footing back after his forced exit from his own organization, Project Veritas. He now has a new organization, O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), which released a video showing possible evidence of voter fraud/money laundering scheme involving Democrats.

It seems some individual election donors gave money thousands of times in a short period of time involving many hundreds of thousands of dollars to ActBue and Biden for President. The data was collected directly from Federal Election Commission records. 

Apparently, a number of U.S. senior citizens had donated thousands of dollars thousands of times in a year. Some individuals have been linked to over $200,000 in contributions. OMG knocked on some doors to verify the information it had obtained from a group of citizen journalists called Election Watch in Maryland. 

O’Keefe visited someone who allegedly donated over $217,000 in 12,000 separate contributions to various entities funneled by leftist platform ActBlue. Donations were made using slight variations to the donor’s name and address. Another donated $32,000 in 3,000 transactions and said he was unaware of the m, but told O’Keefe he was okay with that and he should hit Trump with a bat. Another donor supposedly gave over $18,000 in over 1,000 donations to ActBlue in 2022, which meant he gave three times a day, every day. All year long. The donor laughed when asked about it and said she didn’t think she had, wished she could have.

Another donor from AZ told OMG she was absolutely certain she didn’t give over $170,000 in over 18,000 transactions to ActBlue. When shown the transactions, she insisted she had not made them and said they were fraud. A D.C. donor was asked about his alleged 31,000 contributions to ActBlue amounting to $230,000. He didn’t make them, but thought his wife may have made some, but certainly nowhere near that much, maybe $1,000. His wife confirmed: only $1,000.

OMG has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court of Maryland regarding these findings from across the country. O’Keefe intends to discover what’s happened.

Good Judge, Bad State: Hillary Still In Legal Jeopardy.

Just in time to be buried amidst news of the spreading Covid-19 virus, the 50 basis-point federal reserve rate cut, the Democrat presidential candidate drop-outs, and polls leading up to Super Tuesday (or “Super Thursday,” as Joe Biden erroneously called it in yet another fit of dementia), we got good news for those still seeking the truth about the Hillary Clinton email scandal.