Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is having a busy Monday, first with the release of Nathan Wade’s testimony and now with his scathing letter to the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking responses to what appears to be the final testimony of the DOJ demands. petite attempts to keep noncitizens on state voter rolls.
As RedState reported, the DOJ recently filed a lawsuit against Virginia and its governor, Glenn Youngkin, for having the courage to follow a 2006 state law passed by the DOJ itself that excludes self-identified non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls. Glenn Youngkin did nothing other than allow the eighteen-year law, uneventfully policed by both Democratic and Republican governors, to serve its purpose and keep voter rolls immaculate. Youngkin concluded that the politically motivated Justice Department filed the lawsuit just weeks before Election Day because things were getting “tight” in the commonwealth.
In other words, Democrats have once again used the Justice Department as a weapon against their political opponents.
The Justice Department’s attempt to similarly intimidate voter roll purges in his home state of Ohio has clearly upset Jim Jordan, and you don’t want Jim Jordan to upset you. He’s clever, persistent and brings the receipts.
In one letter to Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Jordan, in his capacity as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, eviscerated Clark over the lawsuit filed by her office against Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, alleging that LaRose’s Efforts to purge the state’s voter rolls could violate federal law. Such lawsuits, Jordan said, are merely threats that are “unfounded, violate applicable law, and constitute a clear attempt to intimidate and interfere with Ohio’s election process.”
Why is the Biden-Harris administration attacking Republican efforts to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls?
Full letter: https://t.co/6ry2WyeGUz pic.twitter.com/SlQJGM47FS
– House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) October 21, 2024
There’s a reason you don’t mess with Jim Jordan and it’s because he’ll make you forget.
In his letter to Kristen Clarke, Jordan cites all relevant case law and precedent, nullifying the Justice Department’s efforts to rig the election for Democrats.
The Constitution authorizes states to serve as primary administrators of elections. In fact, the Supreme Court has recognized that states have broad authority to “impose reasonable party, election, and ballot regulations to reduce election- and campaign-related unrest.” While the federal government plays a supporting role, Congress has passed legislation to improve election integrity and strengthen voting rights. In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) to ensure that only eligible citizens vote in federal elections and to allow states to maintain true voter rolls.
Additionally, Congress has made it a crime for any non-citizen to vote in a federal election. These laws complement states’ primary authority to regulate elections and support what the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia called “states’ historic authority to exclude aliens from participating in elections.” [their] democratic political institutions.”
Seems pretty fresh and droughty, but Jordan wasn’t done yet.
Like other states, Ohio’s constitution specifically prohibits non-citizens from voting. Therefore, non-citizens were never “eligible” voters under Ohio law, and their registration was invalid from the start. In other words, the NVRA “does not apply to the deportation of an improperly registered noncitizen.” Under his authority as Ohio’s chief election official, Secretary LaRose has sought to ensure that eligible voters – rather than ineligible non-citizens – participate in Ohio’s elections.
It’s clear that Kristen Clarke and her Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice don’t care much about the whole “states’ rights” thing, which is why they make clumsy attempts to intimidate states into not complying with their own laws. Ms. Clarke and those like her seem more focused on working as a political activist than upholding the rule of law, but then again, her cushy job in Washington DC will disappear when Donald Trump arrives back in the White House.
Jordan has some demands on the clearly armed Justice Ministry:
1. All documents and communications relating to or relating to the Ohio Secretary of State’s efforts to verify the citizenship status of registered Ohio voters for the period from May 1, 2024 to the present; And
2. All documents and communications between or between the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security or other entities within the two departments that relate to or are related to the Ohio Secretary of State’s efforts to verify the citizenship status of registered Ohio voters during the period beginning January 1st. May 2024 to today.
Ms. Clarke has until 5:00 p.m. on October 31, 2024 to provide the Jordanian Committee with the requested documents.
We’ll just leave it to you with this:
