ACLU - Attempting To Help Obama Win November Election

Suit filed in purge of Florida voter rolls
Politio44 -- Good-government advocates have sued the state of Florida, alleging its purge of non-citizens from voter rolls has swept up too many legally-registered African American and Latino voters and is undermining laws that ensure fair access to the ballot box.

The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and the local office of the international law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP filed a federal lawsuit in Tampa, claiming that the state Bureau of Elections is breaking the law in its ongoing purge, designed to scrub voter registration lists ahead of the state’s August congressional primary.

Florida officials, according to the suit, are using outdated information and a badly-flawed process to conduct the purge, according to the suit. And the procedure, the advocates contend, requires lawful citizens and already legally registered voters to prove their citizenship or lose their ability to vote.

“Florida is flouting federal laws designed to protect voters from precisely this kind of action,” Bob Kengle, co-director, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement issued Friday. “The right of every citizen to have their voice heard at the ballot box is being threatened. The Lawyers’ Committee will continue to tirelessly fight any effort to make full-fledged Americans second-class citizens.”[...]

The Justice Department last month formally asked Florida to justify the move, warning that it might violate provisions in the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act. In their response earlier this week, Florida officials insist the scrub is legal under both statutes, and would have happened much earlier in the election cycle if the Department of Homeland Security had allowed them to use a more expansive federal database for the comparison.

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) said he will sue DHS in voter registration battle

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Blog author's comments - Why do the ACLU and the Democrats have such a problem with fair and transparent elections? What is it that they find offensive in this?

Liberals just hate to see their practice of trying to sway election results hampered. The law is clear, if you are not a citizen you can’t vote - it also requires that you be alive, seems fairly straight forward to me.

Has the ACLU ever done anything in favor of America? This is not a trick question. I have never heard of them doing anything that indicated a respect for America.

The Department of Homeland Security is also involved. (see link above) Florida Gov. Rick Scott said he will sue the DHS. Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner produced the lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C. district court on Monday, shortly after, along with a statement.

“For nearly a year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has failed to meet its legal obligation to provide us the information necessary to identify and remove ineligible voters from Florida’s voter rolls,” Detzner said. “We can’t let the federal government delay our efforts to uphold the integrity of Florida elections any longer."

ACLU Pushes For Another Cross To Be Taken Down

53-Year-Old Cross To Be Torn Down, Thanks To ACLU
Breitbart.com -- In 1959, the Middleboro Kiwanis Club in Massachusetts put up a large cross that said "WORSHIP" on it on a traffic island off one of the local freeways. It stood for 53 years. then, a liberal lawyer spotted it.

Now, the state may have to tear it down.

According to CBS Local, the cross “sits mostly on town land. The state owns a small fraction of the traffic island where it is located, and thus, the ACLU says, the cross violates church and state separation laws.”

The ACLU suggests that the island be opened up to all religious displays or that the cross be torn down or moved. The Kiwanis Club itself is not a religious institution.

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Blog author's comments - Its amazing the cross remained as long as it has without some liberal making a big deal about it. The ACLU, like all the rest of the “rights” organizations, has mutated into nothing but a left-wing pressure group.

It is quite a shame that one person's views and opinions can overwrite the opinions and feelings of the majority. Unfortunately, many cities and towns are not in a financial position that allows them to take on a legal fight in these situations.

We have so many liberals making demands of those who don't agree with them. And the non-liberals who don't agree are portrayed as the enemy by the Democratic Party, the ACLU and of course most of the media. I cannot see this changing; only becoming worse.

ACLU To Challenge Welfare Drug Testing Law

ACLU Plans Lawsuit Over Welfare Drug Tests
Miami News - The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida plans to challenge the state's law requiring new welfare recipients to pass a drug test.

An ACLU spokesman told The Associated Press Wednesday the lawsuit is being filed on behalf of a 35-year-old Orlando man, Luis Lebron.

The spokesman says Florida's drug testing law is unconstitutional, saying it violates the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure protections.

No further details of the lawsuit were immediately available.

Gov. Rick Scott signed the drug testing bill into law in July. Under the law, welfare applicants must pay for the drug tests. If they pass, they'll get reimbursed. If they fail, they can't get benefits for at least a year, and could face child abuse charges.

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Blog author's comments - Is it fair that the worker who pays for the welfare via his taxes has to pass a drug test to be hired but, the person who gets the free money doesn’t?

This is not unlawful search and seizure. If you don’t want to take the test, don’t apply for welfare! It is the applicants themselves that are initiating the action. This is simply a condition for receiving taxpayer funds. Welfare programs in general need a complete overhaul.