Posted on 02/09/2017 5:58:36 AM PST by csvset
State AG Schneiderman Has Trump in His Legal Crosshairs
By Courtney Gross Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 07:38 PM EST With the new president in his legal crosshairs, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is also busy raising his national profile. NY1's Courtney Gross looks at how Schneiderman is rapidly becoming Donald Trump's biggest New York nemesis.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has added a new responsibility to his job description: taking on the president.
"It is up to us at the state level to show leadership," Schneiderman said.
Since Donald Trump took the oath of office, the state attorney general has been corralling Democratic attorneys general across the country to fight the president's most controversial policies or strike at his rhetoric.
His latest endeavor is voting.
"There is this picture being portrayed out there that it is easy to commit voter fraud and there are lots of people doing it. That is a false narrative, and we have to push back against that," Schneiderman said.
With fanfare, he introduced the New York Votes Act on Wednesday, a bill that includes automatic registration for eligible voters, same-day registration at the polls and early voting.
We are told its part of his new tactic in a new federal administration. One - push "progressive policies" as models for other states. Two - step up enforcement of laws on the books. Three - sue.
"This is not just an assault on our laws about immigration. This is fundamentally a challenge to the rule of law," Schneiderman said.
Schneiderman has already joined a lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court to stop the president's so-called travel ban.
He, along with other attorneys general, filed a brief in Washington in a similar case.
And on Wednesday, he filed another one supporting a lawsuit against Trump in Virginia.
"Every president must live within the guidelines set down by the founding fathers," Schneiderman said.
Back at home, Schneiderman's voting proposals could have a tough time in the state Senate. Senate Republicans have blocked these types of proposals before.
Nonetheless, officials say they are hopeful.
"People are now aware and awake in ways that they have never been before, because they realize every day that elections mean something," said Andrea Stewart-Cousins, leader of the state Senate's Democratic conference.
Schneiderman...huge DNC lacky
The left is weaponizing the judiciary and will attempt to run the country from the courtroom while they are out of power.
Its all they have left.
Get in line, schneiderman.
Wait - all of the things he introduced contribute to fraud!
How about voter Id!
I hope Sessions now has Trump’s back in dealing with these smarmy slime bags
I love how these creeps are trying to make names for themselves at the expense of the American people.
“Look at me!” “Notice meeeee!!”
You can tell when a NY politician is lying...his/her lips are moving.
The vote fraud in NY is breath-taking. Get rid of NYC and Ithaca and NY is solid red.
....he may be on the offense...I think he was being investigated last year for shady dealings...
Meanwhile, Albany is a cesspool. NYS is drowning in corruption. And taxpayers and jobs continue to flee the state.
The irony is that the ‘undocumented immigrants’ have voter ID cards if they are from Mexico, and 13% of them vote in U.S. elections.
I would like to see obstruction of justice charges leveled at the AGs of Washington and New York for filing against Trumps’s immigration order for legal incompetence. States have no legal jurisdiction to question actions taken by a President following the U.S. Code, as Trump has done. The court should have dismissed the suit as frivolous on those grounds alone.
“There is this picture being portrayed out there that it is easy to commit voter fraud and there are lots of people doing it.”
At last. People are under the impression there is voter fraud after years and years of lies by Democrats and the media that it didn’t exist.
Thank you President Trump
PRESIDENT Trump is quaking in his boots, I’m sure. :0)
If you are going to try to assault the King - you had better to hell not miss.
In many ways, Donald J. Trump has the sense of entitlement that goes along with the assumption of great power, and he will protect that entitlement with a ferocity that would do a lion justice.
Pretty brave talk from Eric Schneiderman, who based his career on bluffing rivals into preemptive surrender.
IF there is no vote fraud to find, why are Democrats so upset about investigating it?
Just another Leftist Schmuck Living off the American Taxpayer.
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Schneiderman is contemplating running in opposition to Cuomo for Governor of NY.
Schneiderman is going to need big MONIE$ to challenge Cuomo
If you check the record, Schneiderman has been marketing Schneiderman, rather than representing the people of New York .
Its a good bet that the very ambitious Schneiderman is quietly giving the Feds any and all evidence he has on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s corruption.
NY AG has always been a position where one abuses the power of the office to pursue high publicity cases, to seek fame, riches, and above all - higher office
Spitzer did it, Cuomo did it, and now Schneiderman is doing it
...he’s the reason Big Bird deblowzo indictments never came forth...he took over the investigation.... And like NY’s other corrupt AG
has a habit of making things go away...
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