By Bob Walsh
Some
bets are just plain stupid. The states of California, Michigan,
Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania just made one such
bet. The federal DOJ has just sued them for refusal to release
unredacted voter rolls to the feds. These are public records and
federal law specifically gives the federal government access to them.
It
appears that these states are asserting that they are afraid the feds
will do something mean with the information, like maybe prosecuting
people who are voting in violation of law, like illegal aliens,
non-citizens aliens, ex-felons, dogs, goldfish, etc. The reason doesn't
matter. They feds have the legal right to the info under both state
and federal law.
This whole
"anything Trump wants to do is evil and should be fought to the death"
is fucking stupid. Maybe if they can find a judge who will throw a few
elected officials into the can over the weekend they may find the
information forthcoming.
This is a sure loser. Pretending otherwise is stupid. That doesn't mean the base won't love it, but it is still stupid.
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