Yep. No appeals to racism there.
“I can be worried about crime,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Cameron Kistler, “but that doesn’t mean I can falsely accuse my neighbor of being an ax-murderer to draw attention to the issue.”
Oh man, that’s good.
Well he was the Fraud Commissioner.
Thanks, Tierney for staying on top of the many threads of this national effort to disenfranchise citizens.
“Adams’ report, titled “Aliens Invasion,” claimed it found “1046 aliens who registered to vote illegally" and that “Each of the aliens we have discovered to have registered or voted has likely committed a felony.” … The reports included appendixes that listed the names, and in some cases addresses and phone numbers, of the people alleged to be non-citizens who illegally registered.”
Yeah, that sure sounds to me like “the reports were not targeting the defendants but rather the government officials who Adams claims are not enforcing voter fraud laws.”
Good luck with that argument.
Lock up this mofo, too.
“I can be worried about crime,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Cameron Kistler, “but that doesn’t mean I can falsely accuse my neighbor of being an ax-murderer to draw attention to the issue.”
So was this lawyer quick on his feet, or did he appropriately anticipate the other side’s argument and was competently prepared?
Did the report name the officials with their office/home phone numbers and addresses?
Defending the indefensible.
Well Mr. J. Christian Adams is a lawyer who went to Univ. of S. Carolina law school, so at least he wasn’t a graduate of Univ. of AL law school. The judge must count that for something.
The judge offered questions skeptical of LULAC’s involvement in the case, suggesting that the “aliens” in the report could just as easily refer to Irish immigrants or immigrants of other nationalities.
Huh. In TX it’s known that “aliens” are brown skinned. Never heard of a brown skinned Irish immigrant but ok.
We cheat, its what we do.
The judge offered questions skeptical of LULAC’s involvement in the case, suggesting that the “aliens” in the report could just as easily refer to Irish immigrants or immigrants of other nationalities.
I’m not sure how that argument works. The report disparages "aliens who registered to vote illegally” without any specificity and LULAC represents a group of aliens so it is reasonable that LULAC and its members could infer the report applies to them. The fact that the class of plaintiffs could also include “Irish immigrants or immigrants of other nationalities” does not diminish LULAC’s claim of defamation and voter intimation (sic).
That’s a heck of an image to head up this bit. “Voter fraud is a felony”…OK I’ll go that. But accusing someone of a crime they did not commit is a classic form of defamation. Do any of these guys have a lick of brains?
At what point do judges have a responsibility to read between the lines and recognize the dog whistles in a case? I mean literacy tests clearly weren’t racist since they never said that blacks couldn’t vote. It’s just that the blacks were denied the education required to pass the tests and thus they were disenfranchised. Somehow we managed to figure out that that was illegal.
Yes, it’s true that “aliens” could refer to any citizen of a foreign country, but who in this day and age could reasonably imagine them to be referring Irish or Italian immigrants as opposed to Latinos? If someone had released a report in the 1920s claiming that “Alien Anarchists Murder Security Guard,” what are chances that people at that time would have suspected they were English or Scandinavian in origin?
I believe judges are always responsible for reading between the lines.
I’d say part of the reason SCOTUS has made so many disastrous landmark decisions is when the Justices refuse to read between the lines and take bad people at their word.
I hope this jackass gets “bench slapped” just like his little co-conspirator, Kris “KKK” Kobach. Both cut from the same ugly bolt of cloth.
Dubya Appointee = KKKangaroo KKKourt