Posted on 11/06/2006 8:20:48 AM PST by snowrip
Lawyering Up Election By Litigation
The New York Times reports hundreds of the 7,000 lawyers working on the election for the Democratic National Committee are being sent to Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio and 13 other states. The left-leaning Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the N.A.A.C.P., and the People for the American Way Foundation are despatching 2,000 lawyers to 20 states.
To hold off that juggernaut, 150 lawyers will be sent by the Republican National Committee to help hundreds of local lawyers in Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee and other states.
Read on.
About 800 Justice Department lawyers will be in troubled polling locations in 20 states to referee and ensure voting rights laws are obeyed.
The Republican lawyers are outnumbered at the state level as well:
* In Maryland, the Democratic Party has 400 roving attorneys. * In Michigan, the Democratic Party, is dispatching 800 lawyers statewide. * In St. Louis, Missouri, the Democrats are trying to obtain credentials for 300 lawyers to work as poll challengers.
What is it that these legions of lawyers are supposed to do? The same thing we saw in 2000 and 2004. The Republicans want to deter vote fraud by guarding against ineligible people trying to vote. The Democrats, of course, take the opposite position fighting voter suppression by trying to allow everyone who shows to vote, regardless of qualifications.
It all comes down to two sides of the same coin. One lawyer's fight against fraudulent voting is another lawyer's fight against voter suppression.
Echoes of Florida 2000.
There should be no discussion that a person should have to prove that they have the right to vote. When people who are not eligible to vote vote anyway, it infringes upon my voting rights.
A Democrat big wig said they have 7000 lawyers ready to go with the paperwork already drawn up!!!
It's not how many lawyers you have on your side that matters, it's how many judges...
He's lying.
It has come to the point where the dimocrats actually RELY on massive voter fraud.
I joined FR on election night 2000, when conservative Florida became suddenly too close to call.
How many lawyers DO they have ready to go then??
Regards, Ivan
Probably no more than a thousand across the country. About 15 of which are worthy of attention.
The good lawyers aren't going to waste their time showing up somewhere to watch. They are also going to demand they get paid, and there isn't that much money to pay them what they will charge.
Don't think that there are thousands of pro-bono attorneys in force. There may be a bunch (many or most of whom are law school grads perhaps with a bar card, but no real legal skills), but none of them are worth a damn. I've seen the so-called attorneys that show up for RAT causes.
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