The Republican National Committee has dedicated about $20 million to its legal strategy, and the Trump campaign is also spending large sums on voting rights suits.
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It was too fast and too disorganized. The debate was a remarkable example of the fact that Donald Trump, the most self-serving man in America, doesn’t know how to do himself any favors. Citizens for the St. Croix Valley aims to “educate, engage, and mobilize citizens of the St. Croix Valley (Western Wisconsin and Eastern Minnesota) through grassroots efforts to affect the security, economic stability, and preservation of the Constitutional republic form of government.” The SPLC first accused the organization of being an “anti-Muslim hate group in 2018 when it released its 2017 list of “hate groups.” The SPLC’s 2018 list, released in 2019, still included Citizens for the St. Croix Valley.
Although the Ninth Amendment was ratified in 1791, its history and purpose are contested to this day. Conservative political advocacy groups in the United States (17 P) Pages in category "Conservative organizations in the United States" The following 200 pages … James W. Coleman, You can sign up as a subscriber with a range of benefits, including an opt-in to receive the print magazine by mail. The SPLC did not respond to PJ Media’s request for comment, either. Who is Justice Antonin Scalia? For instance, in December 2019, PILF filed a lawsuit pushing for the City of Detroit to “properly clean its voter rolls,” which could be interpreted as purging people’s names from the official registered-voters list. In one Wisconsin case from 2014, the judge wrote in his decision that “[s]ome of the ‘evidence’ of voter-impersonation fraud is downright goofy, if not paranoid.” In this case over voter IDs, Frank v. Walker, the defense argued that voter ID laws would stop buses from transporting foreigners to vote in U.S. elections, though there was no proof provided. Meyers shared the cease-and-desist letter, along with the SPLC’s response, with PJ Media. But the unique conditions of the 2020 election have made … Speaking of the ACRU, most of the board is an older-aged group of former members of Ronald Reagan’s administration, but also among their top ranks are a former executive director of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a former legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a board member at the Cato Institute, and Hans von Spakovsky, a notorious voter fraud promoter (and Adams’s former boss in the Bush Justice Department) whom President Trump appointed to his Commission on Election Integrity (along with Adams) in 2017.
And there’s the Lawyers Democracy Fund, which often refers to itself in emails as LDF, the same nickname for the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund. Andrew Wheeler, Conservative legal groups have keyed on vote-by-mail as a means to restrict ballot access. “Whether it’s PILF, or the Honest Elections Project, or the ACRU, there’s a pattern that is repeated across these jurisdictions to try to bully or compel these underfunded, under-resourced local officials into purging their rolls when that is not necessary and it’s certainly not what’s required by the National Voter Registration Act,” Sweren-Becker explains. Last year, a former heroin addict who tried to start an organization helping men with opioid addictions sued the SPLC after the far-left group helped get his organization shut down.
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Democrats, corporate America, Big Tech companies, and others resort to the SPLC list, blacklisting conservatives and Christians based on the far-left smear factory’s defamation. “After that, none of us thought to keep checking the SPLC website, which has changed since all the staffing changes. Almost anyone watching would have just picked up impressions along the way. Members hold a range of different views within those parameters. The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law, On the Docket: Looking Ahead at the New Supreme Court Term, Litigation Update: United Nurses and Allied Professionals v. NLRB. Last March, the SPLC fired its co-founder, Morris Dees, amid a decades-long sexual harassment and racial discrimination scandal. First Things 62. “Under Wisconsin and Alabama law, it is unlawful to engage in defamation of another’s character and reputation.