Daily Archives: 23 May 2016

Are We Taking Orders

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…from the PRC, now?

China on Thursday ordered the US to end its surveillance patrols around the contested South China Sea region after the Pentagon said Chinese fighter jets “buzzed” a US military reconnaissance plane in an “unsafe manner” earlier this week.

The correct answer to the PRC’s order is to step up our close approaches, and move them in to low overflight, sailings as close as navigable water allows, and escorting those aircraft with combat aircraft.

And order the PRC to take its military occupation forces out of these international waters.

Not Only a Correct Ruling

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…but a correct rationale, also.

US District Judge Henry Hudson upheld Virginia’s voter ID law that requires prospective voters to show a State-approved photo ID before they vote.  In response to the Democratic Party’s (it was the plaintiff, of course) claim that the law was politically motivated, Hudson held in part

The court’s mission is to judge not the wisdom of the Virginia voter ID law, but rather its constitutionality[.]

Hear, hear.  Hudson went on:

While the merits of this voter identification law, and indeed all aspects of Virginia’s voting regime, can be reasonably debated, it remains true that Virginia has created a scheme of laws to accommodate all people in their right to vote[.]

Indeed.  Such a debate is important to be held, in all of our States.  But the debate is a political one, to be held among the citizens of each State and their elected representatives in their legislatures and governor’s mansions.  It is outside the realm of our courts to conduct political debates.

Still, the cynicism persists.

Lawyers representing the state Democratic Party said in a filing that the Republican-dominated state legislature passed the photo ID law “to stall, if not reverse, the growing success of the Democratic Party in Virginia.”

Not at all.  The suit is nothing other than a disingenuous effort by the Democratic Party to wage lawfare in an attempt to stall, if not reverse, the growing success of protections for the sanctity of each citizen’s vote in Virginia, a sanctity at risk from voter fraud.