Bradley Heard
Posted on 02/12/2014 2:15:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Justice Department lawyer Bradley Heard was in court today trying to stop Kansas from ensuring that only citizens register to vote. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, relying on a United States Supreme Court opinion of last year, asked the federal Election Assistance Commission to permit him to ensure that only noncitizens were registering to vote.
The Election Assistance Commission said no, so Kris Kobach went to federal court. Enter Eric Holder’s Justice Department, as usual, opposing election integrity measures.
Despite harping about resource concerns (which apparently means that the DOJ can do nothing about corrupted voter rolls), Holder found the time and money to send Bradley Heard to a hearing in Kansas to argue against Kobach’s election integrity measures.
Things didn’t go well for Bradley Heard before Judge Eric Melgren today. The Wichita Eagle:
Judge Eric Melgren repeatedly pressed Department of Justice lawyer Bradley Heard to explain how a Supreme Court decision last year on Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship law allows the federal Election Assistance Commission to reject requests from Arizona and Kansas to add state-law requirements to the instructions for filling out the voting form.
“The single pivotal question in this case is who gets to decide … what’s necessary” to establish citizenship for voting, Melgren said.
Heard said that decision lies with the EAC under the federal National Voter Registration Act, also known as the motor-voter law. He said the law empowers the commission to decide what questions and proofs are necessary to include in the federal registration form.
Take note, Heard argued both that Kobach can’t take steps to prevent foreigners to register to vote, and, that federal government power over state elections is supreme.
So who is Bradley Heard?
Hans von Spakovsky wrote about Heard’s background in the PJ Media Every Single One Series installment on the DOJ Voting Section:
Before joining the Voting Section, Mr. Heard worked for a number of years at the Advancement Project, a radical left-wing voting organization. The Advancement Project has worked closely with the ACLU, NAACP LDF, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, and other liberal advocates to oppose voter ID statutes, felon disenfranchisement laws, and citizenship verification regulations, and to take myriad other militant positions on state and federal voting rights laws. Mr. Heard fit right in at the Advancement Project, having previously founded the Georgia Voter Empowerment Project, which describes its mission as increasing the “civic participation levels of progressive-minded Georgians.”
Amusingly, before moving to Washington, Mr. Heard had a nasty breakup with his plaintiff’s civil rights firm in Atlanta. He commenced litigation against his partners, who in turn claimed he was engaging in misconduct. Heard then sought criminal arrest warrants against his former partners, charging that they had engaged in false voter registration and voting by an unqualified elector, both felonies. The court declined to issue the warrants.
When Bradley Heard isn’t suing his law partners or trying to make it easier for non-citizens to register to vote, he runs this “activist” blog called Prince George’s Urbanist. There, Heard rails about various left wing causes like changing the name of the Redskins and urging family unfriendly government mandates on development.
The first 2 lines: Is it true that someone is taking the side of allowing ONLY noncitizens to register to vote? I am confused.
We have lost our Country. Time for revolution!
If it looks like treason, walks like treason, and sounds like treason, there’s a fairly good chance it’s treason.
Considering the things which have already come to pass when Holder’s DOJ backs it up, I won’t take this one lightly.
WHAT ???
I think everyone fired their editors in 1999.
It sounds like Mrs. Heard’s little Bradley should be in prison for advocating for voter fraud. I know that everyone in the world would have liked to vote for “the child of the Earth” and his follow up buffoon, Slick Willie’s wife but this is BS.
These are the days that were predicted where truth would be counted as a lie and a lie would be counted for the truth.
Prince George’s Urbanist... Sounds like we should bomb his blog with a little FRee advice?
When we get to a Con Con, we need to add an amendment that states only US citizens are allowed to vote and that children born to illegal aliens in the US are NOT granted automatic citizenship.
Sounds about right.
Hey, why NOT let foreigners vote? Convicted Felons, too! Illegal Aliens? No problemo!
I think that DOJ should fix it where everybody and anybody can vote 2, 3, 4 or 6 times!
At the same time, make it ILLEGAL for White Men and Women, especially Veterans, Active duty and those who attended a TEA Party rally to be able to vote.
That should fix it, right?
Why are these jokers bother going to some Commission? Stop the non citizens from voting and tell FedGov to jump in a lake. Force Obama to send the military to Kansas to ensure all the illegal aliens can get to vote.
So far there are a number of people who have attempted to register either without providing proof of citizenship or providing something that cannot be verified as proof of citizenship, in KS.
Local media and other liberal/socialist groups posing as minority activists claiming hurdle of providing proof, whine about KS law making it "difficult if not impossible for minorities to vote."
Hogwash!
The original article said:
"Justice Department lawyer Bradley Heard was in court today trying to stop Kansas from ensuring that only citizens register to vote. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, relying on a United States Supreme Court opinion of last year, asked the federal Election Assistance Commission to permit him to ensure that only citizens were registering to vote.
Why was it changed and by whom?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e8hoAeaKJQk/T0j3dgOHqmI/AAAAAAAAA08/Hn1xzWQeRxM/s220-h/Brad_May2011.jpg
Introduction: I’m an attorney and citizen activist who resides in the Capitol Heights area of Prince George’s County, Maryland. I grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and spent most of my adult life in Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to Prince George’s County in 2007. Twitter: @BradleyHeard
If you read the original article, its says citizens vice non-citizens. I guess the poster changed it for whatever reason.
Bradley Heard
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