Ex-Trump Voter Fraud Commissioner Settles Lawsuit Over 'Alien Invasion' Reports

[DonViejo]

By Tierney Sneed

July 17, 2019 10:24 am

A former Trump voter fraud commissioner will apologize to citizens he wrongly described as noncitizens in reports claiming mass voter fraud in Virginia, according to a tentative settlement agreement reached this week in a lawsuit brought against the commissioner.

J. Christian Adams and his group the Public Interest Legal Foundation were sued last year over the “Aliens Invasion” reports they released in 2016 and 2017. The reports — which included names, phone numbers, addresses and social security numbers of individuals removed from voter rolls allegedly because they were noncitizens — amounted to defamation and voter intimidation, the lawsuit alleged.

Under the terms of the freshly announced agreement, PILF will have to remove from its website the report exhibits containing the individuals’ personal information, according to a press release Wednesday from the groups that brought the suit.

According to the press release, PILF will also have to add a statement in front of the reports that says, “PILF recognizes that individuals in [the removed exhibits] were in fact citizens and that these citizens did not commit felonies. PILF profoundly regrets any characterization of those registrants as felons or instances of registration or voting as felonies.”

Southern Coalition for Social Justice attorney Allison Riggs, who represented the plaintiffs, called the settlement a “victory.”

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1. A victory, but the fearmongering served its purpose

Citizens were defamed and voters were intimidated, but PILF "profoundly regrets" something, it's not quite clear what they regret.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. naw, I don't think they are sorry at all.

They won't be sorry until you collect on monetary damages, if any, and impoverish this fascist organization.

[TheRealNorth]

3. There needs to be monetary damages

Seriously - they put people's SSN's out there.

But this type of shit is what Republicans are up to today. It wasn't that long ago WI Republicans put out the names of everyone who signed a Scott Walker recall petition.

[Gothmog]

4. J. Christian Adams was hired illegal by the Bush DOJ and is an idiot

Adams represents the King Street Patriots and True the Vote. Adams would have never been hired in the DOJ without political pressure and was forced to leave after President Obama was elected. This asshole is a really bad lawyer