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| NAACP: Sessions' Voter Fraud Prosecutions Were ‘Intimidating' to Voters |
| 2017-01-07 |
| [Breitbart] The organized left’s kitchen sink tactic seen throughout the week against Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) nomination for the next U.S. Attorney General included a bold effort tell the Senate Judiciary Committee directly that the nominee’s record of prosecuting federal voter fraud defendants served as an example of voter intimidation. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s opposition campaign formally expanded this week to include the promotion of a letter from former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D), who previously served as a staff lawyer for the organization before advancing to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Clinton Administration. The document, directed to Senate Judiciary Committee leadership, charged that Sessions’ judgment should be questioned after bringing a case against three black, Alabama voters for what Patrick describes was an effort to "help someone else to vote or advise them how to vote--even if and when they ask for such help." The defendants named in the case (the Perry County Three) were Albert Turner, Spencer Hogue, Jr., and Evelyn Turner. Patrick reports that he served as counsel to Mr. Hogue. The former governor further charged that the case was an example of Sessions’ "extraordinary quasi-judicial activism" and noted that Sessions targeted his efforts on "black voters and only where white incumbents were losing political ground." Finally, the letter argued that the former U.S. Attorney’s decision to give 20 local government witnesses armed protection when traveling to testify led some to believe there was a "campaign to intimidate" the group into "believing that voter assistance was illegal." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Enforcing the law is intimidating to criminals....perhaps they should be investigated? |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-01-07 20:28 |
| #8 The Turners' son has nothing but good things to say about Sessions. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2017-01-07 09:50 |
| #7 Funny that they can't find a victim. Well other than the people who's vote were actually changed, without their knowledge or consent, by the people Session prosecuted. And they failed to note that Sessions acted on behalf of other black candidates who felt that their election was being stolen. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-01-07 09:44 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-07 09:40 |
| #5 Whaaa... Government sponsored corruption is intimidating to law abiding voters. And it pisses a fair few of us off. Especially the ones that have sword to protect the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And by engaging in voter fraud, you have proven yourself to be a domestic enemy. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-01-07 08:23 |
| #4 Don't you prosecute all crimes to intimidate others not to do the same thing? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-01-07 07:54 |
| #3 All smear and absolutely a smear campaign. The NAACP ( non african and communist protection ) has been a subversive work of the left since... the left. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-01-07 07:30 |
| #2 What are diamond cutters to do without diamonds? Nothing personal, it's just business. No crisis, no business. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-07 04:14 |
| #1 Seems to me - looking from outside in - that African-Americans from top (current POTUS) to bottom (these punks in Chicago), with every stage in between (all these AA professors & organizations), are doing everything they can to reverse the advancement they've achieved since 1960. I guess, I'm wrong (because the only other alternative is that the old racists were right). |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-07 04:04 |