Federal judge chastises DoJ in noncitizen voter registration case

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February 23, 2016

Federal judge chastises DoJ in noncitizen voter registration case

By Thomas Lifson

 

Yesterday, I asked:

 

Can you say, “The fix is in”?

 

And it appears that federal district court Judge Richard J. Leon had the same worries, based on how he treated lawyers from the Department of Justice yesterday in a hearing

 

The Department of Justice shamefully has been trying to default on its duties and allow an action brought by left-wing groups proceed and overturn a ruling that would prevent noncitizens from registering to vote. The details of the case, involving the U.S. Electoral Assistance Commission (EAC), are complex, and explained in my blog yesterday, and in greater detail by Hans von Spakovsky of National Review, on whose original reporting I relied. The DoJ is charged with defending the EAC but is behaving as if it doesn’t want to. Judge Leon was not pleased, and he showed it emphatically yesterday