The Top 10 blog posts as selected by RNLA staff and volunteers
for 2014.
10. RNLA Responds to Dirty Tricks by Arkansas Official Illegally Cancelling Registration of Republican Attorney General Candidate
10. RNLA Responds to Dirty Tricks by Arkansas Official Illegally Cancelling Registration of Republican Attorney General Candidate
Democrats
often use election law dirty tricks to try to win elections. We are glad to report these failed in
Arkansas where RNLA Member Leslie Rutledge was elected Attorney General. This post was our response at the time and
was the most read post of 2014.
9. Commissioner
Goodman passes baton after stellar chairmanship
2014 marked a productive year for the [Federal
Election] Commission under the stewardship of Chairman Lee
E. Goodman. The agency updated long obsolete regulations,
strengthened the party system, tackled complex, novel issues, and scheduled
hearings on highly contentious topics for early next year. And according to
campaign finance reporter Dave Levinthal, it did all this
without the “personal hostility that plagued the commission earlier this
decade.”
8. RNLA
Statement on FEC agreement to revise campaign finance regulations
The RNLA supports the rulemakings and applauds the Commissioners and staff who
brought about this agreement. This positive development will provide clarity to
the practitioners, candidates, and others whose activities are regulated under
the Federal Election Campaign Act.
7. ICMYI:
NY Ballot Box Stuffing Scheme Now Importing People from Israel
In the tiny village of Bloomingburg, New York, the votes on whether or not to dissolve the 420-person village’s government and fold the village into the neighboring Town of Mamakating were reportedly sealed by Sullivan County Supreme Court Judge Stephan Schick. . . .Lamm’s daughter and son-in-law, who had never lived in the village and who both live and work full time in Israel, flew in and tried to vote. Close to two dozen hasidic adults claimed the same Bloomingburg house owned by Lamm as their legal residence, and Lamm – who had in court documents filed in late December in an unrelated case claimed that his legal residence is in West Hempstead, New York miles away from Bloomingburg also tried to vote. All those votes were excluded and a judge lashed out at Lamm and the hasidim for apparent “ballot stuffing.”
6. 42 Democrats Favor Ending the 1st Amendment Protections of Political Free Speech
In his opening statement, ranking Judiciary Committee Member Chuck Grassley
noted that the proposal would, “amend the Constitution for the first time to
diminish an important right of Americans that is contained in the Bill of
Rights. In fact, it would cut back on
the most important of these rights, core free speech about who should be
elected to govern ourselves. . . . We would be back to the days when criticism
of elected officials was a criminal offense, as during the Alien and Sedition
Acts.
5. The
2014 Republican Lawyer of the Year Reception Honoring Mark Braden
On Tuesday night, the RNLA Board of Governors honored E. Mark Braden as the
2014 Republican Lawyer of the Year event.
Mark’s long and successful career was saluted by a number of current and
former Republican leaders from Speaker John Boehner to former longtime RNC
Chair Frank Fahrenkopf.
4. Washington
Post’s Reckless Reporting on Virginia’s Photo ID Law
The press have parroted figures from groups like the Brennan Center and others
citing the very highest possible estimate of voters with no ID without
corroborating it with election officials or other sources.
3. Obomination:
Too Extreme for the ABA but Not the Obama Justice Department
RNLA and others in favor of the rule of
law opposed the nomination of Debo Adegbile to lead DOJ’s Civil Rights
division. He was later defeated and a
few of the reasons are listed in this post.
2. How
Democrats Work To Restrict Voting and Disenfranchise People in a Purple State
If Democrats really care about “voter suppression” and “restrictions on
voters,” they will work with Republicans to fix the process. However, their actions show little interest
in doing more than being hypocrites on programs like Crosscheck.
1. Victory
and Defeat for Open, Fair, and Honest Elections
Today was a victory for open, fair and honest elections with the withdrawal of Ms. Perez [for the EAC]. However, the war is not over as President Obama has nominated another person [Matthew Butler] who seemingly has little interest in election administration. There are literally dozens of current and former Democrat election administrators and experts who would be qualified to help lead a commission whose responsibility it is, at least in theory, to “assist” state and local election officials and voters. . . . What are his qualifications other than being an activist progressive Democrat? As Doug Chapin writes:
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