Emails show Neil Gorsuch was a fan of a leading anti-voting rights activist
by Taylor Link at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2017/03/21/emails-show-neil-gorsuch-was-a-fan-of-a-leading-anti-voting-rights-activist/
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Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court who is currently going through the ringer in the Senate Judiciary Committee, appears to have ties with an anti-voting rights crusader who popularized misinformation about widespread voter fraud.
Emails released to the Senate Judiciary Committee indicate that Gorsuch is not only familiar with Hans von Spakovsky, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation known for hyping the voter fraud narrative, but perhaps even a fan of his.
Back in July 2005, von Spakovsky sent out an email to a list of people announcing a speech he was giving at the Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Conference, as Ari Berman reported for The Nation. Gorsuch replied to the email, “Sounds interesting. Glad to see you’re doing this. I may tray [sic] to attend some of it.”
A December 2005 email that Gorsuch received from another contact indicated that von Spakovsky was being considered for the Federal Election Commission. The message’s sender conceded “there will be stories” and that it will be “a little bit of a fight in the press.” Gorsuch responded, writing, “Good for Hans!”
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