There’s a fine line separating prosecution and persecution, yet it’s one that holds the very legitimacy of the justice system within its bounds. When it blurs, the law changes from a tool of public safety into a means of depriving the public of its safety. Unfortunately, a new poll suggests that a majority of American...
In 2007, when photo voter ID was first being debated in the Texas House, State Rep. Rafael Anchia, a leading Democrat leader from Dallas, spoke against it, telling his fellow legislators that they were targeting the wrong problem: “…Vote by mail that we know is the greatest source of voter fraud in this state,” Anchia said....
As a former U.S. Attorney with a criminal justice career that spans decades, I find it remarkable that some in the legal profession are already willing to close the case on the FBI warrant to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home based on the heavily redacted affidavit. The unredacted portions of the affidavit attempt...
Starbucks recently asked the National Labor Relations Board to suspend all pending and ongoing votes to unionize at its U.S. stores due to concerns stemming from mail-in ballots. The franchise’s objections once again raise questions about the credibility of election systems that rely on mail-in ballots. As with coffee companies, how much more with the...
The Harris County Commissioners Court has green lit the exploration of a lawsuit, in a 3-2 vote along partisan lines, over the county’s inclusion in the next round of election audits. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo attacked the selection as “politically motivated” and “a distraction.” Other county officials disputed (without evidence) the randomness of the...
Partisans across the nation denounced Republicans during the 2021 debate over election integrity measures for “waging a nationwide assault on voting rights,” and dreaming up policies that were “Jim Crow in a tuxedo.” Unfortunately for the left’s narrative, if there was a vast rightwing conspiracy to suppress votes, then it’s doing a pretty awful job...
Calls from the left and the media to repeal the updated rules for mail-in ballots are predictable. They opposed requiring photo voter identification to vote too. The attack on the reforms to mail-in ballot rules defy the data—and common sense. First, the numbers. Opponents of the new law highlight that over 12% of mail-in ballots...
Despite the hair-on-fire, gnashing of teeth and general screaming from Texas liberals about the end of democracy over last year’s election reforms bill—Senate Bill 1—last Tuesday’s primary election largely went off without a hitch. There were some cherry-picked media reports and sanctimonious statements from the left insisting that some people who wanted to vote by...
As one of his first acts, newly elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams allowed a measure to become law that gives some 800,000 foreign nationals the right to vote in city elections, so long as they’ve lived in the city for more than 30 days. New York’s move follows San Francisco, where, in 2016, voters approved a...
Mollie Hemingway’s new book, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, is important for what it says—and doesn’t say. In more than 400 pages of carefully footnoted documentation, Hemingway details how the 2020 election was, according to Time magazine, “fortified” by “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and...
When the Census 2020 numbers were finally released late last month, Texas Democrats jubilantly joined the national press in celebrating that the number of white people in the U.S. had declined over the last decade — 8.6% nationally and 5.3% in Texas. Predicting the data would make a huge impact on the redistricting in Texas,...
Even as Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 1 into law in Tyler on Tuesday, Democrats and special interest groups were filing lawsuits to stop its implementation. They’ll challenge it on constitutional grounds, claiming it’s a blatant attempt to suppress minority votes. Yet that’s not the sole strategy at play here. Just as they used...