Flotsam and Jetsam - Supes Nix Trump's Tariffs

The big story of the day was, of course, the 6-3 (with the usual suspects falling where you'd usually suspect) that Trump's tariffs under IEEPA were illegal, that they are a tax and he cannot impose that tax without legislative consent. Liberal's cheered; he was not amused. PJM's Sarah Anderson, Supreme Court Makes a Decision on Tariffs "On Friday morning, the Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump's broad tariffs, which he imposed through a series of executive orders, under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), declaring that the 1977 law does not authorize the president to unilaterally impose sweeping import duties as a tool for addressing trade deficits, national security, or emergencies like fentanyl flows." Althouse, Trump loses the tariff case. Da Signal, Supreme Court Strikes Down Tariffs Core to Trump Economic Agenda. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, NEW: SCOTUS Kills Trump Tariffs ... For Now. Sundance at CTH, Supreme Court Rule 6-3 Against President Trump’s IEEPA Tariff Authority – The “Regulate” Opinion. By 6-3 Vote, Supreme Court Rules All of Trump's Tariffs Illegal "Of course Roberts and Coney-Barrett joined the left. I don't know why we say "joined the left." They're on the left." 

Amy Curtis at TownHall, Here's What President Trump Had to Say About the Supreme Court's Tariff Ruling "The Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs is deeply disappointing, and I'm ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed, for not having the courage to do what's right for our country," President Trump said. "When you read the dissenting opinions, there's no way that anyone can argue against them." Sarah Anderson, Trump Responds to Supreme Court's Decision on Tariffs. Sundance has President Trump Expresses Disappointment and Determination and hosts President Trump Holds a Press Availability on the Issue of Tariffs.

Bruce Mehlman @bpmehlman, "There will be tariffs. Even without IEEPA, the existing tariff toolbox is robust. David Sacks @DavidSacks, "Trump has already maxxmogged by finding multiple alternate bases for the tariffs, thereby reclaiming aura and rugging premature celebration by jestergooning Democrats." Quote Keith @nagy_minaj "BREAKING: Trump brutally lawmogged by SCOTUS for tariffmaxxing, a decision sure to spike White House’s cortisol". Matt Vespa at TownHall observes a Law Professor's Take on the SCOTUS Decision on Tariffs Will Likely Not Please the Libs. Townhall.com @townhallcom, "JONATHAN TURLEY: "There's a lot of runway still for the administration..." "The administration has other tools in its toolbox. It CAN actually impose tariffs under other statutes!"" Dershowitz to Newsmax: Trump Can Recast Tariffs Under Article II Powers. Victory Girls, SCOTUS Tariff Ruling Is Not Quite The Win Democrats Think It is. From Sundance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Outlines “Multiple Tools” Now Deployed in Tariff Policy – Sec. 232, 301 and 122 Explained. In a Larry video at Hat Hair, Trump Activates 'Backup Plan' After Supreme Court Strikes Down Tariffs. From News Wax, Trump Signs Order Imposing 10 Percent Global Tariff.

Capt. Ed, Schumer Shutdown Blues Hits Q4 GDP: 1.4%. Ace, Democrats Shut Down DHS, Attempting to Force Trump to Accept Biden's Open Borders Regime As the Law of the Land. At USA Today, Trump's economy is resilient. So why doesn't he get more credit? A couple leading reasons. First, the "mainstream" press is constantly harping on any perceived negatives and Democrats (about half the population) will never believe it. Second is pure inertia; it takes a while for people to feel better after the economy improves. Driscoll at Insty, has a DISPATCH FROM TRUDEAUPIA: Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible? Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4, "Alabama's unemployment rate is 2.7%. Canada's is 6.5%. Alabama now manufactures nearly as many cars as Ontario. How did the one of the poorest states in the US start outcompeting us? The Globe went down there to find out. The short version: Alabama spent 30 years treating economic development like a serious strategy... landing investments, making it fast and easy to build, and clawing back incentives from companies that didn't deliver. Canada spent the same 30 years writing reports about competitiveness and then not acting on them." Stacy McCain ascribes it to What Happens When Liberals ‘Succeed’, specifically linking it to immigration of low education, low income, welfare requiring immigrants. William Meijer @williameijer, "“Migrants tend to make the economies they move to a lot like the ones they left.” — @GarettJones."

VodkaPundit at Insty says HMM: Trump Weighs ‘Limited’ Iran Strike to Convince Tehran to Sign a Nuclear Deal. "Other reports claim Trump is considering a weeks-long air campaign. Both could be true, but the idea is probably to keep the mullahs guessing — and worried." At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed cites WSJ: Trump Considers 'Limited' Opening Strike As Iran Stalls but Dave Strom says I Would Bet on Trump Striking Iran Soon, and 'Limited' Will Not Be in the Vocabulary. Bluster loudly and wave an even bigger stick. Ace, Trump: "Bad Things" Will Happen to Iran If They Don't Agree to Stop Producing Uranium, Building Long-Range Missiles, and Funding Hamas; Meanwhile, the USS Ford Closes In on Iran, "Is Trump ready to strike Iran? I don't put a lot of stock in Lindsey Graham's insane, low-T ramblings, but he claims the decision to strike has already been made:" Capt. Ed catches NYT whining Trump Is 'Strangling Cuba.' Stop! I already like him! At OilPrice.com, Why Chevron Is Betting Big on Venezuela’s Heavy Crude.

At the Chronic, Rubio’s Call for Europe to Renew the West Falls on Deaf Ears. At Am Con, The Trump Admin Is Serious About Western Civilization. Sarah Anderson, Firing Rubio? Trump's Got Jokes, and He's Having a Darn Good Time. From Althouse, Why Conan O'Brien says Trump is "bad for comedy. "In other words, Trump is already funny, so it's obtuse to build a joke on top of that." 

Also at Althouse, Trump gets out ahead of Obama on the subject of aliens — extraterrestrial aliens. "Yesterday, Peter Doocy prompted Trump with the same question Obama recently answered: "Barack Obama said that aliens are real. Have you seen any evidence of non-human visitors to Earth?" Trump did not answer the question asked."

From Twitchy, We Feel SHOCKED: Latest Epstein BOMBSHELL Lands Right on Democrat Stacey Plaskett's HEAD.

PJM's Matt Margolis says Really? This Is Who Democrats Chose to Deliver Their State of the Union Response? Spamberger. Althouse is intrigued by Gavin Newsom and the 7 Women. The London Times, The seven women who have shaped Gavin Newsom’s life. Meanwhile, WUWT reports California Importing Foreign Fuel After Running Refineries Out Of Town. Dave Strom hears Congressional Democrats Introduce 'Trans Bill of Rights' Protecting Child Mutilation. Ace, Congressional Democrats Will Introduce Law to Assert Some Unknown Federal Power to Regulate State Health Codes, and Insist That Hospitals Must Continue Mutilating Children's Genitals and Breasts, "Such terrific people." Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "New Yorkers waking up FAST buyer’s remorse is REAL after voting for socialist Zohran Mamdani. He campaigned on “tax the rich, not you” now he’s threatening a 9.5% property tax hike on EVERYONE to cover his massive budget hole. NYC got played." Jason Curtis Anderson @JCAndersonNYC, "NYC employs 364,000 government employees, of which only 31% of are white. What is the point of the office of racial equity? To reduce that number to zero?" Quote Mamdani Watch @MamdaniWatch, "Some parts of Zohran Mamdani’s budget: • $5.6M for Office of Racial equity • $4.6M for Commission on Racial Equity • $835K on the Commission of Gender Equity."

Matt Margolis, Susan Rice Reveals Democrats’ Terrifying Plan for When They Return to Power. Revenge on anyone who helped Trump. She promises to do it legally, like Alvin Bragg, Letitia James and Fani Willis. ""If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are gonna, you know, play by the old rules, and say, 'Oh, never mind, we'll forgive you for all the people you've fired, all the policies and principles you've violated, all, you know, the laws you've skirted,' I think they've got another thing coming," Rice said." Rod Dreher @roddreher, "This is important. It signals the kind of dynamic that gripped Spain in first half of 1930s, as the govt of the Republic lurched btw Left and Right. Eventually, both sides hated each other so much that civil war was inevitable. Watch this for background: https://youtu.be/Lu5f9hp0IP4?si=X3lX2i04Dnsf7VyP" Quote amuse @amuse, "WEAPONIZATION: Susan Rice lays out her vision of a post-Trump America where supporters are rounded up and sent to reeducation camps or prisons." InfantryDort @infantrydort, "The impulse for retribution. There’s a tone you hear right before a civilization ages out. It isn’t the sound of defeat. It’s the sound of score settling. When leaders talk about what they’ll do to their enemies once they “come back,” you’re not listening to governance. You’re listening to something different. Law used to be a wall. Now it’s a blade people argue over who gets to swing. The dangerous part isn’t left or right. It’s the hunger. The need to make someone pay. The belief that power exists to avenge humiliation. That’s not how republics talk in their prime. In their prime, they talk about building, defending, expanding horizons. Pushing the envelope. When they’re tired, they talk about punishing. . . "

From Ace, China Is Sending Pregnant Women to the US to Give Birth, Have Their Children Declared American Citizens, Move Back to China, and Then Have Them Vote in US Elections When They Reach Age 18 "Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, who previously exposed how much cash congressmen were taking on the sly, reports that China is directing CCP-connected pregnant women to engage in "birth tourism." They "dip a toe" into the US to have a baby, get that baby certified as a citizen, and the bring it to China to be raised under the communist system as a loyal communist stooge."

At Splice Today, Mark Judge claims The Washington Post Has No Swagger and at Hat Hair remembers an NYT Reporter on Kavanaugh Smears: 'I’ve Been Grappling with Colleagues over This for Years Now'. And Another Thing, NPR and PBS didn't need your money "Champagne appetites in a Kool-Aid economy." "of the more than 1,000 television and radio stations that make up the country’s public media system, only one has closed since the CPB was defunded. A second closure is expected later this year. This is odd. They told us the budget cuts would kill us all. No, wait. Sorry. That was net neutrality. "

Stacy McCain, ‘He Was Mr. BLM’, the rise and fall of Wesley Lowery. "Behind all this success, however, it appears that Lowery had a drinking problem and also a woman problem — the two problems were not unrelated — and while womanizing drunks have never been rare in the world of journalism, you can’t do that if you’re a university professor, because Title IX essentially criminalizes male heterosexual behavior. . . Almost like a metaphor or something." From Da College Fix, Police refute claim that black Virginia Tech professor was victim of racist attack.

At NYPo, Karol Markowicz argues The rise in transgender killers proves that we have a major mental health crisis unfolding. John Sexton, Kansas Legislature Overrides Governor's Veto of Trans Bathroom Law. 

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " BREAKING: Leftist school faces mass calls for a lawsuit after an 11 YO CHILD with SPECIAL NEEDS got left in the dust, miles from school, during an anti-ICE walkout He called the mother. She didn’t even know it was happening. THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED!" Ace woke to the realization of Educational Excellence: "Honors Student" Who Cannot Read or Write Sues Government School Which Allowed Her to Graduate as a Complete Illitarate "Incredible. But it's not. We all know these failure factors are churning out one illiterate after another and scamming the taxpayer $30,000 per student per year for this "service."" And he spelled illiterate wrong in the title. I hate it when I do that.

Still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 02.20.26 (Morning Edition). Linked at the Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. 

A Tuesday Tune - Ride

Ashley Shaye Hale

Commercial model and Instagram sensation with more than 600,000 dedicated fans on her main account. The blossoming model and actress has worked on films and shows like Barely Lethal and Love Thy Neighbor.

Her acting career fell to the wayside as she spent twelve years training as a competitive gymnast. However, in 2013, she began taking countless acting classes throughout Mobile, Alabama.

Throughout her youth she was a beauty pageant contestant and competed in the Montgomery Junior Miss Pageant.

Curiously, she has already been featured here once, for Fish Pic Friday.

The Wombat has Rule Five Sunday: The End of Summer up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

 

Fish Pic Friday - Alissa Shaye Hale

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Fish Pic Friday - Alissa Shaye Hale

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Fish Pic Friday - Destiny Cockrell

Destiny Cockrell@ destiny.cockrell ᴬᴸᴬᴮᴬᴹᴬ 📍Gym . Outdoors . Lifestyle • Social Media Creator for @mahoshades

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Killer Tornado Outbreak in South

An outbreak of severe weather in Mississippi and Alabama came after dark last night, with multiple tornados, including at least one monster with a track over 100 miles long. At least 25 people are dead, with more expected to be found. The towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City in Mississippi were particularly hard it, with widespread devastation. Quite a lot on the outbreak here.

A storm-chaser video from Rolling Fork is particularly chilling, a huge tornado approaches in the dark, only illuminated by lightning flashes:

Fish Pic Friday - Mandy Tillman

 

Mandy Tillman from Dauphin Island, Alabama: Wife to @captain_kurt_t mother of beautiful twin girls. Family, Fishing, Hunting, Crossfit 💪 @heybo @kluchapparel Pro Staff @southernsaltcoastal

Linked at Proof Positive in the weekly Best of the Web* and at the Right Way in the weekly Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama. Wombat-socho has Rule 5 Sunday: Kalinka Fox ready for your digital amusement at The Other McCain.

Russiagate, Before the Snowstorm

It's supposed to snow here, starting later today, and through the night, with totals anywhere from 2-8 inches. As if Washington D.C. needed another excuse for dysfunction.

An alleged new "bombshell  from the NYT via MSN: F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia

In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.

The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.

The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.

Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. But the president’s activities before and after Mr. Comey’s firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said.

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, took over the inquiry into Mr. Trump when he was appointed, days after F.B.I. officials opened it. That inquiry is part of Mr. Mueller’s broader examination of how Russian operatives interfered in the 2016 election and whether any Trump associates conspired with them. It is unclear whether Mr. Mueller is still pursuing the counterintelligence matter, and some former law enforcement officials outside the investigation have questioned whether agents overstepped in opening it.

Sounds likes a load of self-serving crap from the deep state to me. They opened the investigation at the behest of the Clinton campaign and President Obama, using the excuse of the Steele Dossier, material purchased from the Kremlin, through Fusion GPS and Perkins Coie long before the election, let alone the firing of Comey. They may have gotten more serious and changed the name after he fired one of the major conspirators, though. Ann Althouse read the piece and excerpted: "In the Russian Federation and in President Putin himself, you have an individual whose aim is to disrupt the Western alliance and whose aim is to make Western democracy more fractious..."

"... in order to weaken our ability, America’s ability and the West’s ability to spread our democratic ideals.... That’s the goal, to make us less of a moral authority to spread democratic values... With respect to Western ideals and who it is and what it is we stand for as Americans, Russia poses the most dangerous threat to that way of life."
Said Lisa Page, in private testimony to a joint House Judiciary and Oversight Committee, quoted in "F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia" (NYT).

Do you think it's true that Russia poses the most dangerous threat to Western ideals and who it is and what it is we stand for as Americans — to our way of life?

I don't. I think we ourselves are the greatest threat.

Of course, we are always the worse threat to ourselves, but that doesn't change the fact that we have to deal with external threats as well. I don't think Russia is the greatest external threat, though, I think that has to go to China, which is far stronger, and patient, very patient. Lisa Page, and her buddies, though, should be ashamed of their contributions to Putin's goal "to make us less of a moral authority to spread democratic values."

Bryce Buchanan at the American Thinker, Hiding Evidence: The Continuing Cover-Up.

Joseph Stalin is quoted as saying, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." It is also true that the actual evidence decides nothing. The people who control the evidence decide everything.

Knowledgeable liberals are starting to come to terms with the idea that the Mueller investigation is likely to be a bust as far as getting the goods on Trump. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: Mother Jones: You Know This Mueller Report Could Be A Nothingburger, Right?

Yes indeed, and not just in the case where there’s nothing about Russia and collusion to report. David Corn reminds readers at Mother Jones that Robert Mueller’s operating under Department of Justice policies in discussing cases and investigations, which apply even when those cases and investigations conclude. The only report Mueller might produce is a recap of his indictments.
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Mueller could choose to offer a broader report, though — akin to Ken Starr’s report covering the Monica Lewinsky affair. Don’t be so sure, Corn argues. The law under which Starr conducted his independent counsel probe allowed a great deal of latitude on such actions, but that law no longer exists. The statute under which Mueller’s special-counsel probe operates requires Mueller to follow DoJ policies and practices. And that means there may be little Mueller can say outside of indictments, or perhaps little that can be released by the Attorney General to the public or Congress
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Mueller might still decide to emulate James Comey anyway and issue a detailed report that deviates far from DoJ practices. After all of the public abuse Trump has heaped on Mueller and his probe, he’ll certainly be tempted. If William Barr is Attorney General at that point, expect to see little to nothing of that in a public release. But it seems more likely that Mueller will diligently follow the DoJ’s practices and prove David Corn a prophet — and leave Democrats dealing with the collapse of expectations.

Streiff at Red State: Washington Post Destroys The Russia Facebook Story And Then Goes To Work On The Manafort Polling Fable

This is shocking. Not because of what it says…anyone with access to a calculator and a bit of commons sense has known this since November 2016…but because of where it is published. From the Washington Post: That sophisticated, specific Russian 2016 voter targeting effort doesn’t seem to exist. What he’s talking about here is that sophisticated operation that resulted in Robert Mueller’s merry band indicting three Russian companies and 13 Russian nationals. The operation that, at the cost of about $100,000, handed the election to Donald Trump and cheated Hillary Clinton of her turn.. . .

Most of the ads purchased by the Russians didn’t specify a geographic target smaller than the United States on the whole, according to a Post review of the ads released by the House Intelligence Committee. Those that did target specific states heavily targeted those that weren’t really considered targets of the 2016 election, such as Missouri and Maryland. And of those ads that did target specific states, most happened well before or well after the final weeks of the campaign.
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More than half of the actual clicks on ads, in fact, came after the election.
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The most successful of the ads that ran in those three states at the end of the campaign, it seems, was this one — which ran not only in Michigan, but also California, Illinois, New York and Texas.

. . . The article also takes aim at the story of Paul Manafort giving internal Trump campaign polling to his Russian partner for distribution to his Ukrainian pay masters (see here, here). Here they point out a detail that me, and just about everyone else missed.

If we’re talking about specific poll data being passed from the Trump campaign to Russia, though, the presumption is that the Russians would receive information that allowed very specific targeting of voters in places that would have had the biggest effect on the 2016 election.
There are a lot of ways in which even that broadly stated paragraph doesn’t match well with what’s known about the Manafort situation. According to the New York Times, the information passed from Manafort included some proprietary information but, for the most part, was public, obviating the need for much cloak and dagger. The data was passed to Manafort’s colleague Konstantin Kilimnik in the spring of 2016, before Trump had been nominated by the Republican Party. It’s data that, by Election Day, would be several months out of date.

Now that we’ve ruled out the impact of Russia media purchases on the 2016 election, what the hell is Mueller actually looking at? And why, if the Washington Post can do this analysis, hasn’t Mueller announced it, too?

Sidney Powell, Former Federal Prosecutor, at Da Caller: How Did The Wife Of A Mueller Protege End Up Hearing Mueller’s Case?

Would it surprise you to learn that the judge presiding over a case of Robert Mueller’s is married to a Mueller protege?

When Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted Concord, a Russian company that didn’t even exist, it landed on District of Columbia Judge Dabney Friedrich’s docket.

At first, it appeared as though Friedrich had a handle on the malarkey taking place. At the initial hearings, she denied the special counsel’s request to delay everything. She rightfully questioned the validity of the charges — especially the unprecedented charge of “conspiracy against the United States.”

As many noted, the Mueller squad did not anticipate that any of the Russian entities it indicted would appear to contest anything. Rather, the indictment was a publicity stunt to justify the existence of the “insurance policy” that is the entire special counsel prosecution — premised on what Comey has admitted was a big lie from its inception.
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Judge Dabney Langhorne Friedrich is none other than the wife of Matthew Friedrich, one of the three villains in my book. Matthew Friedrich is a longtime friend and colleague of Andrew Weissmann and Robert Mueller. They bonded on the Enron Task Force — what one writer, Mary Jacoby, wife of Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson, long ago called “the glue that binds.”

Judge Dabney Langhorne Friedrich, from a Virginia blue-blood family, has been appointed to various positions by presidents Bush and Obama — the uni-party. Unfortunately, no one informed President Trump of her full background, and he appointed her to the federal bench.

Like Weissmann, Mueller had a hand in picking Matthew Friedrich for the notorious Enron Task Force, where they quickly destroyed Arthur Andersen LLP, the venerable accounting firm, and its 85,000 jobs all for nothing. The Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Andersen conviction two years later. These prosecutors were so overreaching that courts even had to allow people to withdraw guilty pleas.
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Weissmann, Friedrich, Mueller are the deep state. Mueller is the “insurance policy” of which Strzok, Page and McCabe wrote.

Deep down in the corridors of power, Washington D.C. is a small, incestuous place, full of nepotism and corruption. And Jeff Sessions removed himself for conflict of interest because he met with a Russian ambassador while he was a Senator.

Debra Heine, PJ Media, Former Obama Tech Guy Was Behind 2018 Midterm Disinformation Campaign on Facebook and Fusion GPS-Linked Group Funded by Soros Worked with Tech Firm Behind Russian False Flag Against Roy Moore. See, it's a small, corrupt place. Ace: Oh, What a Surprise: The "Cybersecurity" Firm That Ran the False-Flag Fake "Russian Bots" to Interfere in the Alabama Senate Election Has Links to... Fusion GPS I think this weird feeling that I'm feeling is the feeling of "seeing a pattern."

I wonder if the new House Foreign Affairs Committee will be investigating this Interference in Our Precious Democracy, or if our democracy isn't so precious when Democrat hit-men are assassinating it.

Investigating it? Hell no, they'll be shoveling  horseshit on it to convince us there's a pony in there somewhere.

Voter Fraud in Alabama?

Outsider admits to voting, on Camera: Alabama Secretary of State Launches Voter Fraud Investigation in Senate Special Election

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has decided to launch an investigation into possible voter fraud in last week’s Senate special election that say Democrat Doug Jones defeat Republican Roy Moore.

The decision came after an interview with a person on FOX10:

While live on air, in the middle of the crowded party, Kati walked up to a number of jubilant supporters at random, asking them for their reactions to the big win.
But, it was this question and answer that has caused controversy:
“Kati: Why are you excited to see this victory? Man: Because, we came here all the way from different parts of the country as part of our fellowship, and all of us pitched in to vote and canvas together, and we got our boy elected!”
Merrill said he is trying to find out who the man is, and if he really meant what he said, or if he only misspoke.
“Well, it’s very disconcerting when someone who’s not from Alabama says that they participated in our election, so now it’s incumbent upon us to try to identify this young man, to see what kind of role he played, if it was to simply play a canvassing roll, or if he was part of a process that went out and tried to register voters, or if he himself actually became a registered voter,” said Merrill.
Merrill said, so far, there is no concrete evidence that any voter fraud has taken place.
“We don’t have any evidence of people doing that, our numbers do not indicate that has happened, but when you have someone actually recorded on television saying that they voted, and that’s what he said, then we’ve got to get to the bottom of that,” said Merrill.
The Secretary of State’s Office also said voter fraud would be unlikely because every voter is required to show a government photo identification card before casting a vote.
“We have one of the most stringent voting laws in the nation,” said Merrill.
FOX10 News has also been trying to find out who the man in question is, even reaching out to the Doug Jones campaign for a list of volunteers, but the Jones campaign said it does not have access to the countless groups who volunteered to help canvas and campaign.
Merrill said the Jones campaign has been cooperative with his investigation.

But what's a few votes? Virginia court tosses out one-vote victory in recount

A three-judge panel declined to certify the recount of a key House race today, saying that a questionable ballot should be counted in favor of the Republican and tying a race that Democrats had thought they had won by a single vote.

“The court declares there is no winner in this election,” said Newport News Circuit Court Judge Bryant Sugg, after the judges deliberated for more than two hours.

He said the ballot in question contained a mark for Democrat Shelly Simonds as well as a mark for Republican Del. David Yancey but that the voter had made another mark to strike out Simonds’ name.

Election officials presiding over the five-hour recount on Tuesday had discarded that ballot. But Republicans challenged that decision in court Wednesday, saying the voter had selected every other Republican on the ballot and intended to vote for Yancey.

The court’s decision leaves the race for the 94th District tied at 11,608 votes each for Yancey and Simonds.

And it leaves the balance of power in the state legislature at 49-51, in favor of Republicans – at least for now.

In the case of a tie in a House race, state law says the winner is chosen by lot – essentially, a coin toss.

I'm sure, that in Virginia, no illegal immigrants or banned felons voted in that election.