why Andy Taylor should have his law license revoked

[gmoses]

Andy Taylor's Double Bad Faith is an Assault on Civil Rights

An Essay in Progress

Earlier in the week we reported that anyone with access to the original documents in this case (including attorney Andy Taylor who submitted the docs in the first place) would have been able to plainly read the allegation that "fraudulent addresses" for voters of Nigerian descent were given by a candidate in a neighboring district. In fact, the assertion was twice stated in handwritten explanations on provisional ballots submitted by a husband-wife pair of voters.

So while it appeared to us that Master of Discovery Will Hartnett (R-Dallas) was being exceedingly perceptive in his discovery of the fraudulent pattern, in fact he was just reading what was plainly written, not once but twice, on the evidence submitted by the lead attorney for Talmadge Heflin. This plainly stated explanation never stopped Heflin or his attorneys from trying to get the Nigerian victims of this scam removed from the election nevertheless, along with their votes for Hubert Vo. To his credit, Hartnett refused to play along.

The significance of this finding is that Andy Taylor continued to pursue allegations in a public hearing that a number of Nigerian-American voters (4-9 cases according to my preliminary estimate) had cast illegal ballots, even as he placed exculpatory evidence on the record that plainly indicated they were victims not perpetrators of fraud.

Andy Taylor's double bad faith counts as a Civil Rights infringement in two ways. First, it was an effort to criminalize voters of color by deliberately overlooking exculpatory evidence on the record. Second, it counts as a bad faith effort to overturn the election of a candidate of color. Going after voters of African descent in an effort to unseat a candidate of Vietnamese descent, accusing all parties of fraud when your own evidence indicates they have done nothing wrong, this is offensive, outrageous, indecent, and should cost Andy Taylor his license to practice law in Texas.

--drafted by Greg Moses, editor Texas Civil Rights Review.

http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/index.php

[crispini]

1. Good article!

:kick:

[sonias]

2. Good points Greg

Wouldn't it be nice to see the ACLU take up the case for the Nigerian-Americans who were denied the right to vote. Why can't we have anyone take up these cases?

Sonia

[gmoses]

3. the two provisional ballots were approved

by the election judges in Harris County and by Hartnett. only Andy Taylor thought these voters should be disenfranchised, and only because he was trying to overturn the election of Hubert Vo. in order to deprive Vo he needed to deprive certain voters, and in order to deprive these voters he needed to ignore the plain explanation that was accepted by other competent authorities in the matter. From a civil rights perspective, the whole thing is messed up. But I don't know what's worse really, Taylor or all the yawners who watch him and shrug...