Focused read in 2 minutes,
3 -- if you check out the referenced e-mail
“Vice chair of Trump’s
voter fraud commission wants to change federal law to add new
requirements for voting, email shows
The day after Donald Trump
was elected president, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, now the
vice-chair of Trump's commission on voter fraud, told Trump's
transition team of a proposal to change federal law to allow stricter
requirements on voter registration.
Kobach's team was"putting
together information on legislation drafts for submission to Congress
early in the administration," Kobach wrote to transition team
member Gene Hamilton in an email. "I have some already started
regarding amendments to the NVRA [National Voter Registration Act] to
make clear that proof of citizenship requirements are permitted
(based on my ongoing litigation with the ACLU over this)."
Last September a federal
appeals court blocked the proof of citizenship requirement in Kansas
and two other states. The ACLU is currently suing the state of
Kansas over the citizenship requirements. As that lawsuit unfolded,
Kobach was photographed holding a document which included the text
"Draft Amendments to the National Voter..." The rest of the
text was obscured by Kobach's arm.
The ACLU filed a motion
for Kobach to release those documents. Kobach attempted to argue that
the documents were not related to the proof of citizenship
requirement, but he was subsequently fined $1,000 by the federal court
for making false claims about their contents.
… Critics of Kobach say
the email proves the voter fraud commission is aiming to restrict
voting access regardless of any findings it may make. "I think
the email is wholly unsurprising," said Justin Levitt, elections
expert at Loyola Law School."I won't be shocked as more proof
emerges that the cake is already baked."
… That commission is
scheduled to have its first meeting this week.”
(THAT meeting ↗ is actually today, 11 a.m.!)
You can read the story here
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C-SPAN (a good place for speeches & hearings direct source (s))
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follows on Twitter include:
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Ari Melber
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Ari Berman
Author: Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America | Formerly at The Nation
→ Some of the most credible media covering the Trump administration -- at the moment:
The Washington Post
The New York Times
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