These motherfuckers have gone too far...

[MrScorpio]

Trump's sham voter commission asked Texas to flag 'all Hispanic surnames' in voter records

By Jen Hayden
Monday Jan 22, 2018 · 2:56 PM EST

Donald Trump and his racism have time and time again transcended words and been turned into real life policy. He turned his phony voting commission into the incompetent hands of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the architect of the most racist law in modern American history. Kobach and the commission were widely mocked when they demanded every state send their full voter registration records to the commission for review.

President Trump’s voting commission asked every state and the District for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas’s case it took an additional step: It asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with Hispanic surnames, newly released documents show.

In buying nearly 50 million records from the state with the nation’s second largest Hispanic population, a researcher for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity checked a box on two Texas public voter data request forms explicitly asking for the “Hispanic surname flag notation,” to be included in information sent to the voting commission, according to copies of the signed and notarized state forms.

White House and Texas officials said the Texas voter data was never delivered because a lawsuit brought by Texas voting rights advocates after the request last year temporarily stopped any data handoff.

Emphasis added and it bears repeating. Donald Trump’s phony voter commission intended to specifically target citizens with Hispanic surnames in the state with the second highest Latino population in America. No doubt they intended to run these names through Kobach’s shady, discredited Crosscheck program, which conveniently flags minority voters, who tend to vote for Democrats, and puts them on suspended voter rolls.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/22/1735043/-Trump-s-phony-voter-commission-asked-Texas-to-flag-all-Hispanic-surnames-in-voter-records

[PoorMonger]

1. Has to get whacked in an appeal right?

That’s plainly racist and discriminatory practice and thus unconstitutional...

[Gothmog]

2. What is to happen with the files of this bogus commission is being litigated by the ACLU

What is to be done with this bogus commission files is being litigated and the ACLU will confirm what is done with any files generated by this fraudulent commission https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/doj-kobach-declaration-voter-fraud-commission-panel

A federal judge didn’t buy the Justice Department’s argument that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach couldn’t speak to what was being done with the data collected by the now-defunct voter fraud commission he led. The judge ordered that Kobach or another commission member file a declaration giving a full explanation.

The declaration will state “what information was collected or created by the
Commission and/or its members on behalf of the Commission, where that information was and is being stored, by whom the information has been accessed, and what plans were made by the Commission to maintain or dispose of the information,” U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said Thursday.

The order came in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Florida against the commission and Florida last year, for turning over state voter roll data Kobach had requested

[brer cat]

5. Good.

Thanks for adding to the thread, Gothmog.

[Generic Other]

3. That is so blatant

Kobach should be convicted and lose his voting rights. So evil.

[BobTheSubgenius]

4. It's hard to believe that something so heinous and so blatant can occur as public policy.

Apparently, they have either gone back several decades in time, or have been somehow stuck there since.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Grrrr! So hate these assholes!

[malchickiwick]

7. As shit like this happens, LiddleDonnie is packing the federal bench with deplorables

With a quisling Senate as a rubber-stamp, this administration has sat more federal judges than the previous two admins combined. These are the people who rule on the constitutionality of all this shit that's going on. AND he has that stolen seat on the highest court in the land. This is the shit that keeps me up at night, I'll tell ya!

[malchickiwick]

9. I agree. And assuming we someday wrest our civilization back, history will regard them all as such.

If I believed in god this is where I'd say "God willing."

[uponit7771]

10. This is how it started 90 years ago in a land far far away

[oasis]

11. Ted Cruz is Norwegian.