Disgrace

Update: Breaking - High court rejects GOP bid in Ohio voting dispute. See also NYT editorial on ACORN. GOP just got its vote-suppressing arse handed to 'em. Wisconsin's Van Hollen to see a similar event next Thursday, October 23.

The GOP's corrupt usurpation of the legal system for partisan objectives is a disgrace.

The latest target is the ACORN political group whose only crime as an organization is registering low-income Americans to cast votes, a political crime against the Republican Party.

Practiced on both the national and state levels, the ongoing voter suppression operations of the GOP exercised in the capacity of state authority and in the naked partisan name of the GOP raises the spectre of Richard Nixon in using the government apparatus to suppress the political will of the American people.

[Note: Wisconsin's own Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is deep into it (see Van Hollen v. GAB for motion and argument language) for which the political system at the least ought to hold Van Hollen accountable].

From Talking Points Memo on the national operations aimed at the ACORN organization:

'I'm astounded that this issue is being trotted out again. Based on what I saw in 2004 and 2006, it's a scare tactic.'

Who's that speaking? And what's he talking about?

That's fired US Attorney David Iglesias talking about the news leaked today that the DOJ and FBI are opening a nationwide investigation into allegations that the community organization ACORN is somehow working to undermine the November election through fraud. For more from Iglesias and his fellow fired US Attorney Bud Cummins, don't miss TPMMuckraker's Zack Roth's interview post from earlier this evening.