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Americans
willing to volunteer their time to ensure that only lawful votes are cast and
counted in upcoming elections got a critical piece of advice during the
Conservative Political Action Conference.

“A
lot of you know about voter ID,” former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian
Adams said Friday at CPAC, the annual gathering of conservative activists just
outside Washington. “But that’s yesterday’s issue and it is 10 years old. Voter
ID is not the solution; the left has moved on.”

The
“next battle space,” Adams said, involves illegal immigrants who acquire
driver’s licenses that enable them to become registered voters.

For
concerned citizens to be successful in efforts to ensure ballot integrity, they
must set the “right priorities” and focus their attention on where the left now
operates, he said.

Adams,
part of the Justice Department’s Voting Section from 2005 to 2010, was one of
three panelists in a breakout session on voter fraud at CPAC.

The
others were Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal analyst at The Heritage
Foundation who manages the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative, and
John Fund, a columnist for National Review and Fox News. Both men have written
at length on voter fraud.

“The
next battle space is alien registration,” Adams said.

The federal “motor voter” law requires state motor vehicle agencies to offer voter registration forms when …read more

Americans
willing to volunteer their time to ensure that only lawful votes are cast and
counted in upcoming elections got a critical piece of advice during the
Conservative Political Action Conference.

“A
lot of you know about voter ID,” former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian
Adams said Friday at CPAC, the annual gathering of conservative activists just
outside Washington. “But that’s yesterday’s issue and it is 10 years old. Voter
ID is not the solution; the left has moved on.”

The
“next battle space,” Adams said, involves illegal immigrants who acquire
driver’s licenses that enable them to become registered voters.

For
concerned citizens to be successful in efforts to ensure ballot integrity, they
must set the “right priorities” and focus their attention on where the left now
operates, he said.

Adams,
part of the Justice Department’s Voting Section from 2005 to 2010, was one of
three panelists in a breakout session on voter fraud at CPAC.

The
others were Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal analyst at The Heritage
Foundation who manages the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative, and
John Fund, a columnist for National Review and Fox News. Both men have written
at length on voter fraud.

“The
next battle space is alien registration,” Adams said.

The
federal “motor voter” law requires state motor vehicle agencies to offer voter
registrations forms when residents apply …read more

The Daily Signal was at all three days of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the largest annual national gathering of conservative activists, in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, and we’ve rounded up some of the highlights of our coverage.

1. Vice President Mike Pence Speaks Out Against the ‘Culture of Death’

“Life is winning in America. For all the
progress we’re making, tragically, at the very moment more Americans are
embracing the right to life, leading members of the Democratic Party are
embracing a radical agenda of abortion on demand,” Pence said Friday at the Conservative
Political Action Conference.

Pence called President Donald Trump the “most pro-life president
in history,” noting that Trump revoked U.S. tax dollars from funding abortions
abroad and signed legislation allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood.

“Democrats are
standing for late-term abortion, infanticide, and a culture of death,” Pence
said. “I promise you, this president, this party, and this movement will always
stand for the unborn and stand for the inalienable right to life.”

Pence also said the people of Venezuela are embracing freedom
against the embattled socialist regime of dictator Nicolas Maduro.

“Freedom is more generous, more helpful, and more humane than any other social or economic model ever attempted because it is the only philosophy that respects …read more

The Daily Signal was at all three days of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the largest annual national gathering of conservative activists, in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, and we’ve rounded up some of the highlights of our coverage.

1. Vice President Mike Pence Speaks Out Against the ‘Culture of Death’

“Life is winning in America. For all the
progress we’re making, tragically, at the very moment more Americans are
embracing the right to life, leading members of the Democratic Party are
embracing a radical agenda of abortion on demand,” Pence said Friday at the Conservative
Political Action Conference.

Pence called President Donald Trump the “most pro-life president
in history,” noting that Trump revoked U.S. tax dollars from funding abortions
abroad and signed legislation allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood.

“Democrats are
standing for late-term abortion, infanticide, and a culture of death,” Pence
said. “I promise you, this president, this party, and this movement will always
stand for the unborn and stand for the inalienable right to life.”

Pence also said the people of Venezuela are embracing freedom
against the embattled socialist regime of dictator Nicolas Maduro.

“Freedom is more generous, more helpful, and more humane than any other social or economic model ever attempted because it is the only philosophy that respects …read more

When President Donald Trump first entered the Oval Office two years ago, Sen. Lindsey Graham was a little reticent to give him his phone number.

“President Trump and I did not start well,” the South Carolina Republican said in remarks Thursday to hundreds of conservative activists. “But now I’ve given him my phone number.”

Trump famously gave out Graham’s old cellphone number to the world when both men were seeking the Republican nomination for president.

“We’ve got a lot in common. I like him, and he likes him,” Graham quipped, provoking laughter.

Graham, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told his audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference that he was “never more proud of Trump” than during the ultimately successful effort to win Senate confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Graham attracted the admiration of skeptical conservatives in September, when he made an impassioned defense of Kavanaugh as fellow Judiciary Committee members weighed a newly surfaced accusation that the nominee sexually assaulted a teenage girl when they were in high school.

“I want to thank the president for nominating Brett,” Graham said at CPAC. “He did something not everyone does. He had somebody’s back when it really mattered. There were a bunch …read more

When President Donald Trump first entered the Oval Office two years ago, Sen. Lindsey Graham was a little reticent to give out his phone number.

“President Trump and I did not start well,” the South Carolina Republican said in remarks Thursday to hundreds of conservative activists. “But now I’ve given him my phone number.”

Trump famously gave out Graham’s old cellphone number to the world when both men were seeking the Republican nomination for president.

“We’ve got a lot in common. I like him, and he likes him,” Graham quipped, provoking laughter.

Graham, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told his audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference that he was “never more proud of Trump” than during the ultimately successful effort to win Senate confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Graham attracted the admiration of skeptical conservatives in September, when he made an impassioned defense of Kavanaugh as fellow Judiciary Committee members weighed a newly surfaced accusation that the nominee sexually assaulted a teenage girl when they were in high school.

“I want to thank the president for nominating Brett,” Graham said at CPAC. “He did something not everyone does. He had somebody’s back when it really mattered. There were a bunch …read more

Instead of looking to government for protection and security, Americans should work to preserve and strengthen Second Amendment rights, a student who became an activist after last year’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, told hundreds of conservative activists Thursday.

Kyle Kashuv, now director of high school outreach for Turning Point USA, a nonprofit youth organization, was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a gunman opened fire Feb. 14, 2018, killing 14 students and three staff members. Seventeen others were wounded.

“What happened at Parkland wasn’t a gun issue,” Kashuv said during a session on gun control at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, just outside Washington.

Kashuv, 17, pointed to statistics that show crime rates have declined as gun ownership has gone up.

He also expressed frustration that law enforcement officials received multiple reports about earlier behavior by the young man responsible for the shooting, but did nothing.

“Government failed at all levels,” Kashuv said. “Every single level of government knew this could happen. I’m targeting individuals who allowed this to happen. A gun is an inanimate object without someone pulling the trigger.”

For the question-and-answer session called “Disarming the Left’s Hypocrisy: The Fatal Disadvantage of Gun Control,” Kashuv …read more

Instead of looking to government for protection and security, Americans should work to preserve and strengthen Second Amendment rights, a student who became an activist after last year’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, told hundreds of conservative activists Thursday.

Kyle Kashuv, now director of high school outreach for Turning Point USA, a nonprofit youth organization, was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a gunman opened fire Feb. 14, 2018, killing 14 students and three staff members. Seventeen others were wounded.

“What happened at Parkland wasn’t a gun issue,” Kashuv said during a session on gun control at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, just outside Washington.

Kashuv, 17, pointed to statistics that show crime rates have declined as gun ownership has gone up.

He also expressed frustration that law enforcement officials received multiple reports about earlier behavior by the young man responsible for the shooting, but did nothing.

“Government failed at all levels,” Kashuv said. “Every single level of government knew this could happen. I’m targeting individuals who allowed this to happen. A gun is an inanimate object without someone pulling the trigger.”

For the question-and-answer session called “Disarming the Left’s Hypocrisy: The Fatal Disadvantage of Gun Control,” Kashuv …read more

By invoking a law regulating foreign agents to pursue prosecution of former Trump campaign officials, special counsel Robert Mueller opened the door to more intense scrutiny of some U.S. environmental groups, according to legal analysts who say China and Russia use such groups to influence America’s energy policy.

But these legal analysts said they also see a danger that Mueller’s Russia investigation could set a precedent for the Justice Department to “selectively enforce” the Foreign Agents Registration Act in a manner that undermines the rule of law and potentially jeopardizes national security.

The Trump administration, they say, should closely examine the relationship between environmental advocacy groups and foreign governments that are considered strategic competitors of the U.S.

“If the Mueller probe has any real benefit, it is that it opened the door for the Justice Department to employ FARA as a basis to investigate green groups that are undermining our country and aiding socialist/communist regimes,” lawyer Mark Fitzgibbons told The Daily Signal.

Because these same environmental groups persistently lobby for policy changes to restrict U.S. energy use and the projection of U.S. military power, the groups may operate at the direction and encouragement of hostile foreign actors, Fitzgibbons and …read more

By invoking a law regulating foreign agents to pursue prosecution of former Trump campaign officials, special counsel Robert Mueller opened the door to more intense scrutiny of some U.S. environmental groups, according to legal analysts who say China and Russia use such groups to influence America’s energy policy.

But these legal analysts said they also see a danger that Mueller’s investigation could set a precedent for the Justice Department to “selectively enforce” the Foreign Agents Registration Act in a manner that undermines the rule of law and potentially jeopardizes national security.

The Trump administration, they say, should closely examine the relationship between environmental advocacy groups and foreign governments that are considered strategic competitors of the U.S.

“If the Mueller probe has any real benefit, it is that it opened the door for the Justice Department to employ FARA as a basis to investigate green groups that are undermining our country and aiding socialist/communist regimes,” lawyer Mark Fitzgibbons told The Daily Signal.

Because these same environmental groups persistently lobby for policy changes to restrict U.S. energy use and the projection of U.S. military power, the groups may operate at the direction and encouragement of hostile foreign actors, Fitzgibbons and other …read more