{"id":15111,"date":"2012-07-13T18:28:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T22:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15111"},"modified":"2012-07-13T18:28:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T22:28:24","slug":"texas-voter-id-clown-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15111\/texas-voter-id-clown-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Voter ID &#8220;Clown Show&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit late, I post <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/jchristianadams\/2012\/07\/12\/texas-voter-id-clown-show-ends-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">this tremendous account <\/a>by Christian Adams of the almost criminally incompetent (and ideologically nuts) Justice Department behavior in a key trial over Texas&#8217; voter-ID law. Amazing stuff.<\/p>\n<p>One tiny excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;\">But the testimony got even more ridiculous.\u00a0 San Antonio teenager Victoria Rodriguez travelled the whole way to Washington, D.C., for the clown show.\u00a0 She testified that she did not have photo ID, even though she had the birth certificate to get a free one.\u00a0 Her excuse?\u00a0 She couldn\u2019t find the time. Neither could her parents be bothered to drive her to get the ID. \u00a0One wonders if Victoria Rodriguez ever leaves the house, or when she does, if she has other priorities besides voting.\u00a0 I\u2019d suspect so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;\">One also wonders why DOJ lawyers decided to put her on the stand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;\">This travesty, this abomination, is typical of the Obama-Holder (in)Justice Department. For shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit late, I post this tremendous account by Christian Adams of the almost criminally incompetent (and ideologically nuts) Justice Department behavior in a key trial over Texas&#8217; voter-ID law. Amazing stuff. One tiny excerpt: But the testimony got even more ridiculous.\u00a0 San Antonio teenager Victoria Rodriguez travelled the whole way to Washington, D.C., for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3097,316,561,3289],"class_list":["post-15111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-christian-adams","tag-justice-department","tag-texas","tag-voter-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15112,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111\/revisions\/15112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}