TPMMuck: Senate Rules Committee to Vote on GOP ‘Voter Fraud’ Zealot’s Appointment to FEC Tomorrow
We don’t normally re-run entire items from elsewhere here. This one, however, is important (and short) enough to merit it. From Paul Kiel over at TPMMuckraker… Finally, the time has come. The Senate Rules Committee will vote tomorrow on whether Hans von Spakovsky, the former Justice Department official who former employees say was key to […]
The DoJ is the New ACVR
Gonzalez and Schlozman and Griffin may be gone, but the long-term politicization and damage at the DoJ was done and institutionalized long ago. The usual suspects — Thor Hearne, Hans von Spakovsky, Joe Tanner, et al. — are still plying their insidious anti-democracy trade with all of the tools of big Republican government at their […]
Bush Admin/DoJ Voter Fraud Zealots Von Spakovsky and Schlozman Have Some ‘Splainin’ to Do…
Voter Fraud zealot Bradley Schlozman takes his do-over concerning testimony he gave last week to the Senate Judiciary Committee concerning his assertion (made 10 times in all), that it was Craig Donsanto of the Election Crimes division at the DoJ’s Public Integrity unit who gave him the go ahead to bring voter fraud charges in […]
McClatchy Posts Von Spakovsky Emails
Following up on Greg Gordon’s Sunday piece on former DoJ operative turned recess-appointed FEC chair Hans von Spakovsky, McClatchy has now posted the emails referred to in the article in full [PDF]. As you’ll recall, the point we focused on when we covered Gordon’s article was the apparent attempted strong-arming, suggested by the emails, of […]
McClatchy: Bush Operative Von Spakovsky, Now Head of the FEC, Strong-Armed the EAC and the DoJ Voting Rights Unit on ‘Voter Fraud’ Issues While Serving as DoJ Appointee
McClatchy Newspaper’s excellent Greg Gordon moves the ball forward again on the Bush White House’s insider politicization of the DoJ to achieve electoral advantages via gaming of phony “Voter Fraud” claims and the pursuit of voter suppressing Photo ID laws at the polls. His article covers the inside moves of the Bush-appointed operative Hans von […]
GOP ‘Voter Fraud’ Scam Finally Exposed to America
The most valuable takeaway from the entire U.S. Attorney Purge scandal will likely prove to have been the exposure of the long-perpetuated GOP “voter fraud” scam. The scheme has been been so pervasive for so long, but the coverage of it has been largely contained to blogs like ours. In the interim, the MSM coverage […]
More Page One WaPo News on Bush DoJ’s Dismantling of the Voting Rights Act…
Last month, we reported how the George W. Bush administration has effectively gutted the beloved, 40-year old Voting Rights Act. He has done so by allowing political appointees in the Department of Justice to override the recommendations of career attorneys in the Voting Rights division who had recommended against the Georgia Photo ID Requirement Law […]
Bush Recess Appoints New Federal Election Commissioners…
The U.S. Senate convenes two weeks from now. George W. Bush could not wait and had to “recess appoint” the three latest additions to the Federal Elections Commission. You know how he is about those things. Hates to wait. And hates that whole annoying “Congressional oversight”, “check and balances”, blah, blah, blah stuff. Amongst Bush’s […]
More Bush Cronyism Instituted, This Time at the Federal Election Commission
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.org Hans von Spakovsky. A German industrialist? A compatriot of artist Hieronymus Bosch? No. He is an attorney who is presently the head of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Voting Section. He is a member of the right-wing Federalist Society, and joined other Bush cronies […]