Roger Stone Faces a Gag Order. He Has a Plan to Resist It.

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By Politico. . .The federal judge in Stone’s case, Amy Berman Jackson, has already hushed a coterie of others caught in special counsel Robert Mueller’s dragnet, including Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and their attorneys. They were quieted after one of the lawyers told reporters that Mueller’s case was “ridiculous.” . . .

If Stone is gagged, his contingency plan is already in place. He’s got a well-known First Amendment attorney on his legal team who represented the rap group 2 Live Crew against obscenity charges in the early 1990s. And Stone has designated a pair of close friends as spokesmen in the event he and his lawyers are told to stop talking. . .

Since his arrest last Friday, Stone has been on a media blitz. He gave his first interview to the conspiracy theory website InfoWars and then addressed reporters outside the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. He’s discussed his legal defense plans during a series of interviews with the major television and cable networks, as well as in impromptu press conferences outside his South Florida home. Anyone on Stone’s email list got a message Monday with the subject line “Let’s talk about my arrest” and a plea for “emergency” contributions to help pay his mounting legal bills. . .

During Stone’s arraignment hearing on Tuesday, magistrate judge Deborah Robinson opened with a warning that he’d be wise to not speak about the charges in the indictment. “Any statements you make may be used against you,” she said.

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Roger Stone warns Trump’s presidency is in peril

By Fox 13. . .The political trickster said Tuesday, a day he pleaded not guilty to seven charges laid by special counsel Robert Mueller, that Trump’s presidency is in mortal peril because the Russia investigation amounts to a “speeding bullet heading for his head.”

Stone’s comment, to “Breitbart News Daily” on Sirius XM radio, added to soaring anticipation, fueled by a remark by acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker on Monday, that the probe could soon end with Mueller’s final report.

And it raised the question of whether Trump’s repeated claim of “no collusion” fired off in scores of tweets and comments to the press, is a sufficiently broad defense to the existential threat that Stone perceives from Mueller’s work. (Read more from “Roger Stone warns Trump’s presidency is in peril” HERE)

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This Is the Latest Development in the Rand Paul Assault Case

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A jury awarded Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul over $580,000 in damages Wednesday to compensate for the injuries he suffered after a neighbor attacked Paul in a dispute over lawn care.

The jury awarded $375,000 in punitive damages and $200,000 for pain and suffering, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. Paul was also given $7,834 for medical expenses, according to the AP. . .

The decision to compensate Paul for the trauma and injuries he endured comes after Boucher, 60, attacked Paul in November 2017 in a lawn dispute. The assault broke six of Paul’s ribs and bruised his lungs.

Boucher initially denied attacking the senator before admitting to Kentucky State Police that he had assaulted Paul. The dispute allegedly began after Paul placed a pile of brush near the property line separating his and Boucher’s residence.

After Boucher pleaded guilty to a felony assault charge in March 2018, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison and a year of supervised release, according to the AP. (Read more from “This Is the Latest Development in the Rand Paul Assault Case” HERE)

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Antifa Leader Arrested on Assault, ‘Ethnic Intimidation’ Charges for Attack on Marines

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A former leader of “Antifa” and an organizer for “Smash Racism DC” — the group that was briefly running Trump administration officials and allies out of Washington, D.C. restaurants, was arrested and charged this week for an assault on two Marines that included “ethnic intimidation.”

The Daily Caller, whose reporting originally exposed D.C. area “community organizer” Joseph “Jose” Alcoff, says Alcoff was booked on January 10 on 17 separate charges, including “multiple counts of aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, conspiracy and terroristic threats, and one count of robbery while inflicting serious bodily injury” in connection with a coordinated Antifa attack on Marines Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres back in November.

The pair of Marines “testified in December that a group of 10 to 12 Antifa members called them ‘Nazis’ and ‘white supremacists’ and attacked them on the street despite their denials that they had no association with the right-wing group demonstrating nearby.”

“During the attack, Godinez said he shouted ‘I’m Mexican’ at the mob, which allegedly led the attackers to call him a ‘spic’ and ‘wetback,'” the Caller reported at the time. . .

Alcoff is, of course, an avowed “anti-Capitalist” who regularly participates in “anti-Fascist” demonstrations across the Eastern seaboard. His involvement with Antifa, however, is only a part-time gig. He also leads a group called “Smash Racism DC,” which rose to prominence in the summer of 2018 for their in-person protests of Trump administration officials like Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House allies on the issue of immigration, like Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). (Read more from “Antifa Leader Arrested on Assault, ‘Ethnic Intimidation’ Charges for Attack on Marines” HERE)

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Jared Kushner Is Undermining President Trump’s Campaign Promises

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If Trump wants to anger all sides, give the impression of nepotism, and lose his base headed into re-election, his continued empowerment of Jared Kushner, his liberal policy novice son-in-law, to serve as a super chief of staff is the surest way to accomplish that goal.

Imagine if a Democrat president had a conservative political novice as a son-in-law and empowered him to strategize his policy promises. Now imagine if that individual then worked with anti-illegal immigration groups, such as the Federation for Immigration Reform and Numbers USA, to craft a negotiating plan on immigration with Republicans.

You just have to imagine it, because it would never happen, and even if it did, the Democrat base would obliterate this alliance in three seconds.

Yet that is exactly what is happening as Kushner works with Koch groups and associates who are as rabidly pro-open borders as any of the Democrat presidential candidates to craft our policies on immigration. Where is the outrage from conservatives who claim to wield influence?

Axios is reporting that Kushner “ran a white board planning session last week at the White House with the Koch network and other people who worked with him on criminal justice reform.” As I warned at the time of the prison reform bill, apparently due to Kushner’s influence, Trump flipped on his promise to get tougher on drug traffickers, many of whom are illegal aliens or working for the cartels. Kushner will try to recreate this success on amnesty. Axios states that the purpose of these meetings is “to see if the administration can replicate the approach they took to pass criminal justice reform to overhaul America’s immigration system.”

First, the sad irony and twisted Orwellian thinking behind this approach. On Tuesday, the sheriff of Cochise County appeared on my podcast and explained that his county is the only border region that is not experiencing more illegal immigration because of his 100 percent conviction rate on drug runners, including juveniles. That Kushner, the man who got Trump to go weak on these very people with essentially an amnesty bill for illegals through our criminal justice system, would now serve as the lead on the broader immigration issue is mind-boggling.

But let’s take this a step further. The Koch brothers have just declared war on Trump. They ran ads in support of the very Democrat senators we needed to defeat in the election. Trump himself has called them out.

Yet, thanks to Kushner, they now have a stronger voice than any conservative both inside and outside the administration. According to the Axios report, two former Koch staffers, Brook Rollins and Josh Trevino, were at the meeting as well. Why in the world would Trump accept this?

The other problem is that there are almost no good guys in the room during these negotiations. I’ve intensely studied every aspect of the border and immigration problem with all its policy and political angles for years. Likewise, I know many people who have worked on this even longer. Why is the room full of complete novices like Kushner or people who have long supported amnesty, such as Mike Pence and Mick Mulvaney, rather than people who know the issue and support the president’s promises?

The entire strategy of pushing amnesty is not only wrong, it misses the point. At this point, not only does Trump have more leverage with the military declaration route, it speaks more to the actual problem at our border. The problem is much bigger than the few billion in funding for “strategic fencing.” The cartels need to be dealt with, and Trump needs a massive military buildup at our border. There are now counties getting overrun by diseases, tens of thousands of migrants, criminals, drugs, and cartels, and they only have a few sheriff’s deputies to deal with the problem. This is an invasion, and it calls for the military, regardless of whether we build more fencing.

Either way, once the military is deployed, Trump can build infrastructure to support it without new appropriations unless Congress writes a new statute or budget bill explicitly baring the president from doing so. But that would require his signature.

So why is Kushner negotiating down, against us, on amnesty, all for some pennies for the wall, when this is a policy problem and a military problem, not a funding issue?

Moreover, as I noted last week, the way to leverage DACA is by threatening to end it, which the president can do by April if he follows the Administrative Procedure Act. With Kushner praising DACA, he has no leverage to get anything from Democrats unless he massively expands the amnesty.

Axios reports, from an unnamed “senior official,” “Right now [Kushner is] just trying to understand the Republican position [on immigration] so that we can take all those views to the president and he can make an informed decision.”

Shouldn’t the top policy guy in the White House be someone who A) understands the issue and B) is taking the president’s view to the wayward Republicans, not vice versa?

Kushner was roundly mocked by all sides last week when he thought “moderate” Democrats would support his amnesty deal and that focusing on amnesty rather than more aggressively pushing votes on enforcement would pressure Democrats. It’s fine that Kushner doesn’t understand Congress and the political intricacies, but that is why such positions are usually left to the most seasoned politicos on either side. Under no conceivable political strategy can Kushner’s prominence in the White House be a net positive with any group of voters or any insiders, either, in the establishment or grassroots. It is pure self-destruction for Trump to continue allowing the Kushner-Koch show to be run out of his own White House.

It’s quite laudable that the president has such a close relationship with his children, including his son-in-law. But never mix family and politics; often, not even family and business. Trump would be wise to send Jared and Ivanka back to New York, lest the whole family be forced back to Trump Tower in 2020. (For more from the author of “Jared Kushner Is Undermining President Trump’s Campaign Promises” please click HERE)

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Dems’ New Voter ‘Rights’ Bill Is Great for Felons and Fraudsters, but Bad for the Constitution

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Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on H.R. 1, otherwise known as the “For the People Act,” turned into a heated sparring match between Democrats, Republicans, and witnesses.

House Democrats are trying to sell the election overhaul legislation as an update on the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and Democratic leadership clearly thinks a lot of it, giving it symbolic status as the first bill of the 116th Congress. But it looks more like a “greatest hits” collection of Democrats’ biggest election gripes.

“The only common motivation running through the whole proposal seems to be this — Democrats searching for ways to give Washington politicians more control over what Americans say about them and how they get people elected,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said of the bill on the Senate floor Tuesday.

Given that the bill is probably dead on arrival in the Senate, the most it can achieve this session is to spark conversations about the voting system. Here’s what Democrats want to do.

One of the central features of the bill is restoring voting rights to felons (who tend to vote Democrat, by the way). Democratic politicians have pushed for measures like this in various states, and now House Democrats want to make it a reality in federal legislation.

“Not only is ex-offender disenfranchisement wrong and anti-democratic in and of itself, many of these laws were deliberately designed to entrench white supremacy,” read an opening statement from Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., grilled one witness on specific instances of felons, including two convicted of voter intimidation, who would be put back on the voting rolls under the proposed bill. He also asked about the future voting of violent felons like a man who committed sex acts on a minor at knifepoint.

“I think that, like, there are some things you can do that are so bad — the degradation of people’s right to vote, intimidating people from voting, raping children,” Gaetz told the witness, “that probably surrenders your right to participate in those decisions in the future.”

And while the bill seeks to increase the voice of convicted felons in our electoral process, it seeks to restrict the speech of others through campaign finance regulations.

According to a memo from the Conservative Action Project, the legislation “would allow the Federal Election Commission to track and catalogue more of what Americans are saying, register even very small political donations, and make public those who donate to different charitable and nonprofit organizations.”

In turn, the memo continues, this would “subject private citizens to intimidation and harassment for their private and political beliefs, far broader than what was done in the IRS targeting scandal in 2013.”

The legislation also takes aim at the states’ constitutional power to run their own elections by reviving a process known as “preclearance,” which was immobilized by the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder. The preclearance process requires states to get the federal government’s permission for almost any change they make to election process, whether it’s moving a polling place or implementing a voter ID law.

Furthermore, the bill also eliminates political “gerrymandering” by forcing states to draw future congressional districts via independent redistricting commissions. Redistricting done by state elected officials has long been one of the Left’s biggest scapegoats in the election process.

As unpopular as partisan redistricting can be, there are still good reasons to keep the question in the political arena rather than put it into the realm of the unelected and unaccountable. CR’s Daniel Horowitz explains it this way:

“After every decennial redrawing of the maps, a number of states run by either party tend to get carried away with their power to draw the boundaries and create districts that fail to respect the geographical, demographic, or cultural integrity of the region. The reality is that both parties engage in gerrymandering. Yes, it is unfair. But what should be the remedy? Using the electoral process to punish these troublemakers or having the unelected judges redraw even worse maps?”

Critics also say that the act would make it easier to commit voter fraud nationwide. In his prepared testimony, Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams warns that the bill’s vague language surrounding voter registration “could jeopardize very important voter registration safeguards.” Furthermore, key provisions of the bill would force states to expand automatic voter registration (aka “motor voter”) and same-day registration, which make things easier for potential fraudsters and even allows non-citizens to vote in our elections.

Given provisions like these, it’s no wonder why Republicans are speaking out so vociferously against the bill.

“This bill works like the Chicago-style Democrat machine,” House Freedom Caucus Member Ken Buck, R-Colo., said of the proposed legislation.

“If you’re earnestly for the people, if you want everyday citizens to have the power that only comes through their ability to hold officials accountable at the ballot box, you’d have to send this bill back to the drafting table,” reads a statement from Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins, R-Ga., because H.R. 1 “throws a strong left hook at the Constitution and expects voters to take it on the chin.” (For more from the author of “Dems’ New Voter ‘Rights’ Bill Is Great for Felons and Fraudsters, but Bad for the Constitution” please click HERE)

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President Trump Is Right: The Intelligence Community Botched Iran Threat

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President Trump fired off a series of tweets Wednesday expressing his dissatisfaction with how Iran is presented in the latest Worldwide Threats Assessment produced under the direction of Dan Coats, who is responsible for the annual report as the director of national intelligence.

Anti-Trump pundits and television networks predictably attacked the president for refusing to blindly accept the totality of the report, claiming that this was more evidence of a president who must at once be removed from office and/or is unfit as commander in chief.

However, this is largely the same Intelligence Community (IC) that became hyper-politicized and weaponized during the Obama administration and relied on questionable information, such as the Clinton-funded Steele dossier, to substantiate Russia’s supposed impact on the 2016 election. Given that reality, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that this IC product appears at times to passive-aggressively take issue with President Trump’s foreign policy decisions.

The annual report sends confusing signals about the Iran nuclear deal, which the president withdrew from last year, citing the deal’s weakness and its severe lack of benefits to U.S. strategic interests.

For one, it reads as a politicized endorsement of the nuclear deal, falsely contending that the Iran deal, or JCPOA, somehow has enforceable limits in place that restrict Iran from advancing its nuclear program.

The Iran deal fundamentally empowered the terrorist regime in Tehran. Far from stopping the regime from acquiring a nuclear weapon, it provided a road map to a sophisticated nuclear weapons program. Moreover, the Iran deal was one agreement that was part of a comprehensive Obama administration strategy to realign the Middle East in Tehran’s favor.

The IC assessment incorrectly and bizarrely labels Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as a “centrist,” when he is anything but moderate. Rouhani is a Holocaust denier who has openly encouraged Iran-backed terrorist groups to export Iran’s ideology through force throughout the region. Additionally, in labeling Rouhani a centrist, the IC product contends that there is a strong ideological divide within the Islamic supremacist regime.

In an effort to sell the deal with the Tehran regime, the legacy media and Obama administration officials took pains to separate so-called regime “reformists” from “hardliners.” The 2019 IC assessment claims on three separate occasions that the influence of “hardliners,” and not the fundamental nature of the Tehran regime, is the driving force for anti-U.S. and anti-West hostilities. This is a serious misread.

This hardliners-versus-moderates or centrists distinction is deliberately deceptive. Any individual running for president or a seat in parliament in Iran goes through a substantial vetting process by trusted elements of the regime. Many who want to run for elected office are ruled out by those vetting authorities and immediately forbidden to run for office, if it is determined that they present a threat to the future of the regime. All “elected” officials in Iran are committed to the regime’s expansionist ideology. Only their tactical approach to pursuing that endgame is different.

Additionally, while the Worldwide Threat Assessment does in fact mention Iran’s strongest proxy terrorist organization in “Lebanese Hizballah,” the assessment fails to point out that the Lebanon-based Shiite jihadi group is entirely subservient to Tehran.

The threat assessment of Iran isn’t entirely inaccurate. It does take note of Iran’s growing and aggressive cyber warfare campaigns, its support for the Houthis and Hezbollah, the IRGC’s intrusion into multiple foreign countries, and Iran’s unjust detention of U.S. citizens. However, that doesn’t discount the Intelligence Community’s failure to understand that it is the regime’s radical ideology, which all of its officials are fully committed to, that is its driving force.

The IC’s high-profile annual report of course touches on many other issues, such as the growing threat from China and Russia, in addition to non-state actors such as international terrorist organizations. It also draws substantial attention to the increasing cyber warfare capabilities of our major adversaries. You can read it here. (For more from the author of “President Trump Is Right: The Intelligence Community Botched Iran Threat” please click HERE)

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Media Outlets Say Actor Was Beaten in Chicago by Attackers Who Yelled, ‘This Is MAGA Country!’ but Cops Aren’t Saying That.

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Numerous media outlets on Tuesday reported that “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in Chicago by men who yelled, “This is MAGA country!” — a reference to the iconic red “Make America Great Again” hat from President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

But Chicago Police on Tuesday afternoon told TheBlaze they have no information regarding the alleged attackers’ descriptions nor on what they said. Officer Michelle Tannehill added to TheBlaze that detectives are still investigating, gathering video, and speaking to witnesses.

Police released a statement saying they “received a report of a possible racially-charged assault and battery involving a cast member of the television show Empire. Given the severity of the allegations, we are taking this investigation very seriously and treating it as a possible hate crime.”

Smollett was walking on Tuesday when two unknown offenders approached him and started yelling “racial and homophobic slurs,” USA Today reported, citing police. The pair used their hands to batter the victim and poured an unknown chemical substance on him, the paper added, noting one of the offenders wrapped a rope around the victim’s neck. Smollett then transported himself to Northwestern Hospital, USA Today added, citing police, adding that the actor is in good condition.

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Public Feud Between Starbucks’ Schultz and Elizabeth Warren Escalates Quickly

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With the announcement by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Sunday that he’s strongly considering running for president as an independent because both parties have devolved into myopic and destructive “revenge politics,” his fellow liberals have turned on him for fear that he might end up getting Trump re-elected — all because he’s an “egotistical billionaire a**hole!”

And it’s not only the radical left activists and Democratic operatives shouting out in crowds or complaining behind the scenes about Schultz toying with a presidential run, some big names have begun to speak out against his potential independent run, among them fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Another public figure on the left who is clearly not excited about a Schultz independent candidacy is the first Democrat to officially declare her own intentions to run: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA).

In less than two days, potential candidate Schultz vs. candidate Warren has already gone nuclear. Speaking with NPR Tuesday, Schultz opened fire on Warren’s “ridiculous” proposal to impose brand new taxes on capital assets of the wealthy.

“When I see Elizabeth Warren come out with a ridiculous plan of taxing wealthy people a surtax of 2 percent because it makes a good headline, or sends out a tweet, when she knows for a fact that is not something that’s ever going to be passed, this is what’s wrong,” Schultz told NPR in an interview. “You can’t just attack these things in a punitive way by punishing people.”

Warren has since fired back. Asked by Talking Points Memo if she is worried that Schultz is going to screw up the Democrats’ plans to take out Trump in 2020, the senator went to her standard class warfare rhetoric. “We have a billionaire who says he wants to jump into the race and the first issue he’s raised is ‘no new taxes on billionaires.’ Let’s see where that goes,” she told the outlet. (Read more from “Public Feud Between Starbucks’ Schultz and Elizabeth Warren Escalates Quickly” HERE)

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Non-Citizens Voting in Our Elections Is a Huge Problem

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Let’s just imagine for a moment that there weren’t millions of criminals among the illegal aliens invading our country. Let’s assume that we are not dying from drugs, gangs, and diseases brought in and that there are no violent cartels bringing them in. By itself, the fact that illegal immigrants are likely voting in our elections is a national emergency in its own right that should demand immediate attention from our political leadership. The latest news from Texas’ election officials should raise the prominence of this most odious manifestation of stolen sovereignty, but thus far, aside from a Trump tweet, it has not blown up into a national issue.

Over the weekend, the Texas Department of Public Safety released the details of a voter registration analysis showing that 95,000 registered voters are suspected of having registered to vote as non-citizens. They further found that 58,000 of those registered voters cast ballots at least once since 1996.

Attorney General Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott immediately highlighted the importance of this finding and how urgent it is that the state act upon it:

The state government is calling on all the counties to send out letters to those people on this list and ask them to respond to an inquiry whether they have indeed become naturalized citizens. The 11-month investigation ordered by Paxton showed that these 95,000 individuals who applied for driver’s licenses as aliens registered to vote at some later date. According to the Longview News-Journal, the Texas Tribune contacted 13 of 15 counties with the highest numbers of these registered voters. Only one county, Galveston, said it is sending letters immediately.

Amazingly, within hours of the release, the Texas Tribune sought to “fact-check” this assertion and suggested that this is not really as much of a problem as the headline number indicates:

The Tribune is claiming that these numbers don’t prove much because they are a count of those who provided immigrant identification documents, such as green cards and work permits, as documentation for driver’s licenses. Therefore, the Tribune reporters are suggesting that some of them may have become naturalized but offered immigrant documents to verify their identity at the department of motor vehicles.

It’s amazing the lengths to which the liberal media will go in order to deny the problem of non-citizens voting, just like they deny the illegal alien crime wave. Aside from the absurdity of suggesting that a significant number of naturalized citizens would offer such documentation, they are missing the more important point. The fact that someone who is applying for the ultimate right of a citizen can merely rely on his driver’s license, which was issued upon a showing of immigrant documentation, is in itself a threat to our franchise. How have we come so far that not only is proof of citizenship not required for voter registration, but individuals can offer documents that prima facie indicate they are not citizens, yet still successfully register to vote without showing that they became naturalized citizens? Sure, a minority of them might have later become naturalized, but the fact that we have an “honor system” for voting is insane.

Moreover, the bigger problem is that the same liberals who deny the extent of the problem of non-citizens voting also oppose any effort not just to combat it but to even uncover data exposing it. Harris County, by far the biggest county in Texas, which contains a large foreign-born population, has refused to publicize the data that would allow outside groups to compare driver’s licenses against voter registration records to identify potential non-citizens. “This shows why Harris county must release the alien voting records we have sought for a year,” Public Interest Legal Foundation general counsel and President J. Christian Adams said in a statement. “We all know they exist. We all know aliens are voting in our elections. It’s time Harris and other [counties] stop hiding the documents.”

Adams’ group has filed a lawsuit against Harris and other major trouble spots in the country that refuse to comply with the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) mandate to cleanse voter rolls of fraudulent voters and to allow public access to maintained records.

Here’s the problem that nobody is effectively combatting on the national level. Despite liberal grousing to the contrast, it is now easier to vote than ever. Between technology and a number of social services practically begging you to sign up to vote, it’s almost impossible not to register. Some states are now automatically registering anyone with a driver’s license. At the same time, there is no effective front-end or back-end check against non-citizens voting, and the courts have outright blocked states from requiring proof of citizenship, even though the federal registration form established by motor voter laws has a box asking if the applicant is a citizen!

With a record number of foreign nationals in this country – both legal and illegal – it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a number of non-citizens will be seamlessly shunted into the voter registration system, often even without intent to violate the law. Worst of all, photo ID laws (the ones still standing after judicial nullification) don’t help for this form of voter fraud because these individuals have driver’s licenses with legitimate names and addresses.

Consider the fact that Texas doesn’t even automatically register voters, and you see how bad the problem is. Can you imagine what California looks like? A dozen states hand out driver’s licenses to illegal aliens – more than a million in California alone – and other states are being forced to do so by the courts.

Republicans had two years to fix this travesty, whether it’s requiring proof of citizenship, blocking the courts from interfering with photo ID laws, or discounting illegals in the Census. Now Democrats are seeking to make the problem worse. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on a bill that, among other things, would force automatic voter registration on the states, mandate that they accept same-day registration on Election Day, and strip them even of the existing avenues to clean their voter rolls. It’s no surprise why this bill is named “H.R. 1,” because Democrats prioritize any effort to get more votes, even if it comes at the expense of our sovereignty. Republicans, on the other hand, never prioritized protecting our franchise from fraud. The more this goes on, the less likely that they will ever get that opportunity again, because they will permanently be in the minority. (For more from the author of “Non-Citizens Voting in Our Elections Is a Huge Problem” please click HERE)

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A Leftist Extremist Like Kamala Harris Could Win the Presidency If Trump Takes Re-Election for Granted

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On Monday night in Iowa, America was given a good hard look at the presidential campaign platform of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., at a CNN town hall event. The first thing that should be clear to conservatives is that Harris is an extreme leftist. The second is that she has a very real chance to become president if President Trump and the Republicans don’t proactively run on policies that answer the Left.

Harris’ proposed policies are straight out of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ policy wishlist. She wants to “eliminate” private health insurance in America, replacing it with “Medicare for All” single-payer health insurance. If you like your doctor, you can’t keep him, and if you work in the health insurance industry, you’re out of a job, pal. She believes “assault weapons” have no place in “civil society.” Democrats define most semi-automatic rifles as “assault weapons” if they look scary enough. She will not vote for a wall on the southern border “under any circumstances;” wants a new national paid paternal leave entitlement; and has endorsed the “Green New Deal” popularized by socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. — a set of policies that would reduce the American economy to agrarian subsistence by ending the free market system.

Republicans should not make the naive mistake of believing Harris is too far Left to win, should she be the Democratic nominee. Democrats are adopting these ideas because they poll well. “Medicare for All” has 70 percent support among the American people. Even 52 percent of Republicans support it! The “Green New Deal” is supported by more than 80 percent of registered voters. A 2017 poll found most Americans support paid paternal leave as well. Sure, Harris is campaigning on a bunch of free stuff, but voters like free stuff if they’re not told who pays for it. That last part is key. If voters are told that Medicare for All requires raising taxes and long wait times at the doctor, support for it collapses. If Americans are unwilling to spend just $10 a month to fight climate change, they won’t support a Green New Deal takeover of the free market system.

Harris’ campaign platform is vulnerable. Trump can beat her. But conservatives need to be clear-eyed about President Trump’s chances of getting re-elected, because it’s no guarantee. The president’s disapproval ratings are at an all-time high for his presidency. A new ABC/Washington Post poll found that 56 percent of respondents say they definitely won’t vote for Trump for re-election. Six in 10 Americans now say the country is on the “wrong track.” These polls do not mean that Trump will lose the 2020 election. But they do show that Trump has work to do to convince the American people he deserves a second term in office.

To win, the president and the Republican Party should offer alternative proposals to the Left’s agenda. It is not enough to scoff at Medicare for All and say “no.” The status quo needs to change. A recent Gallup survey found that Americans are least satisfied on issues like the availability of affordable health care, immigration levels, and the quality of public education. So President Trump should announce and have Republicans in Congress introduce bills to make health care more affordable. There’s no shortage of conservative ideas: reform medical malpractice, streamline the FDA drug approval process, promote health status insurance for people with pre-existing conditions. The same goes for immigration and national security. Take up a school choice bill in Congress. And if Democrats in the House of Representatives want to obstruct and fight these ideas, Trump needs to make the proactive case that they are too obstructionist and too far Left to govern.

Presidential campaign season is upon us, whether we like it or not. President Trump has two years to make the case for re-election against a Democratic Party that is offering serious, if dangerous, ideas to address the issues Americans care about. Conservatives cannot take Trump’s re-election for granted. (For more from the author of “A Leftist Extremist Like Kamala Harris Could Win the Presidency If Trump Takes Re-Election for Granted” please click HERE)

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