The ACLU has filed suit in Pennsylvania in defense of ACORN for a declaration that a law there is unconstitutional for preventing the kind of voter fraud which is a hallmark of ACORN efforts nationally. In short, the ACLU claims that ACORN has a constitutional right to engage in its chosen form of voter fraud.

Some of the facts for this article, but not the legal conclusions, come from a press release by the ACLU itself. The release concerns the filing of a case by the ACLU in Pennsylvania to defend one aspect of ACORNs frequently fraudulent efforts to register non-existent people, aliens, and real people […]

The Supreme Court has rejected the ACLU appeal of a Circuit Court decision upholding the Georgia Voter ID law. This law requires new voters to present documentation to show they are both citizens and residents. The ACLU attacked this law, and similar laws in other states, claiming that such laws discriminated against the poor and persons of color.

Most of the facts for this article, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article in the Atlanta Constitution on 9 June 2009. The article reports that the US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals […]

It is perhaps not surprising that San Francisco has provided the ultimate example in civic madness of where the concept of “sanctuary city” can lead. After being caught flying “juvenile” drug dealers back to their home countries accompanied by city personnel, the City switched to dumping the drug dealers in unsecured facilities in other counties. They promptly escaped. The City has done all this to avoid turning the criminal “juveniles” over to federal authorities.

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The facts for this article, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article in the L.A. Times on 2 July 2008. It concerns the ramifications of […]