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In my Examiner column today, I note that the Justice Department seems to be ignoring what is effectively an open invitation from the Supreme Court for DoJ to step in and stop vote fraud. But DoJ is turning a blind eye, perhaps because so many of its key personnel are big Obama donors.

At NRO, the great Hans von Spakovsky writes on the same topic and adds some interesting legal background.

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J David| 10.21.08 @ 3:32PM

The "bi-partisan" POTUS has encouraged the commie-lib Dems he so kind-heartedly left in all sorts of key posts, by actively turning aside from and attempting to undermine the immigration laws, despite the will of the people, to openly break the law themselves.

Ross Kaminsky quoted one of the fathers of the conservative movement to me, "I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice! And also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" (Barry Goldwater 1964)
Bush has shown the world what moderation gets from the enemies of liberty in our country whom he has encouraged, actively, to flout the laws that protect us.

Thomas| 10.21.08 @ 4:22PM

You would think that people in the government of these United States would have a sense of history, especially members of the Department of Justice. These men and women voluntarily took upon themselves the charge to investigate violations of Federal law and to protect the rights of the people by the enforcement of those laws. That they routinely violate their oath of office, seems to trouble them not at all. This situation and a possible remedy for it was stated by the founders of this nation in a document that is the foundation of our Republic and predates the Constitution by some eleven years. That document is the Declaration of Independence and it reserves to the people the unlimited right of redress of governmental wrongs. Its words should not be ignored.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

The duty of government workers is to make it unnecessary for the citizenry to have to resort to this ultimate redress of wrongs by faithfully rendering the service that they have volunteered to perform. It is about time they start doing their jobs or this government could find itself in the same predicament as that of George III.