Rep. Jim Jordan, R-OH, was busy on Monday. First, he released the Nathan Wade testimonies, then sent a scathing email to the Biden/Harris Departments of Justice demanding answers regarding the DOJ’s apparent last-minute attempts to keep noncitizens registered to vote in the state.
The DOJ filed a suit against Virginia and Glenn Youngkin for following a state law approved by the DOJ in 2006 to remove self-identified citizens from voter rolls. Glenn Youngkin allowed the 18-year-old law to do its job and kept the voter lists clean. Youngkin concluded that the politically-motivated DOJ filed the lawsuit with just a few weeks to go until Election Day because things are “getting tight” in the commonwealth.
The Democrats have once again used the DOJ to weaponize their political adversaries.
Jim Jordan was annoyed by the DOJ’s attempt to intimidate similar voter roll-cleaning attempts in Ohio, his home state. You don’t want Jim Jordan angry at you. He is smart, tenacious, and brings receipts.
Jordan, as the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee slammed Clarke for a lawsuit that her office filed against Ohio Secretary Frank LaRose. The suit alleged LaRose may have violated federal law in his efforts to purge the state’s voting rolls. Jordan said that such lawsuits were nothing more than threats, which are “baseless and contrary to established laws, and an attempt to intimidate and interfere with Ohio’s election process.”
Why is the Biden-Harris administration attacking Republican efforts to remove non-citizens from voter roles?
Full letter: https://t.co/6ry2WyeGUz pic.twitter.com/SlQJGM47FS
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) October 21, 2024
Jim Jordan will send you to oblivion if you mess with him.
Jordan’s letter to Kristen Clarke cites every relevant precedent and case law, destroying the DOJ’s attempts to rig elections for Democrats.
The Constitution gives states the authority to be the primary administrators for elections. The Supreme Court recognized in fact that the states had broad authority to “enact reasonable regulations of parties and elections and ballots” to reduce election and campaign-related disorder. While the federal government has a supporting role, Congress passed laws to improve the integrity of elections and strengthen voting rights. Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act in 1993 to ensure that only citizens who are eligible participate in federal elections and to allow states to maintain accurate voting rolls.
Congress also made it illegal for any non-citizens to vote in federal elections. These laws support the primary authority of the states to regulate elections, and what the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia described as the “historical right of the states to exclude aliens” from participating in their democratic political institutions.
Jordan was not done. It may seem obvious, but it wasn’t.
Ohio’s Constitution prohibits noncitizens, like other states. Noncitizens are not “eligible” to vote in Ohio, so their registration is invalid. In other words, the NVRA “does not apply to removing an improperly registered noncitizen.” Under his authority as Ohio’s chief election officer, Secretary LaRose has tried to ensure that eligible voters–and not ineligible noncitizens–participate in Ohio’s elections.
Kristen Clarke, and the DOJ Civil Rights Division, are not big fans of “states’ rights”. This is evident in their ham-handed attempts to intimidate state governments into not upholding laws. Ms. Clarke, and those like her, seem more interested in being political operatives rather than upholding the law. But, her lucrative DC job will disappear if Donald Trump is re-elected.
Jordan has some demands for the DOJ, which is armed:
1. All documents and communications that refer to or relate to the efforts of the Ohio Secretary of State to verify the citizenship of Ohio registered voters for the period from May 1, 2024, to the present;
2. Documents and communications between the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, or any components within these departments about or referring to the efforts of the Ohio Secretary of State to verify the citizenship status of Ohio registered voters for May 1, 2024, to the present.
Ms. Clarke must provide Jordan’s committee with the documents requested by 5:00 pm on October 31, 2024.
Let’s just end with this:
