More than 7,000 volunteer lawyers are set to descend upon "key states" during this year's election, according to the Associated Press. You can count on Ohio being one of them.
That's just the Democrats. Republicans aren't swearing off litigation -- they just declined to say how many lawyers they have lined up.
Evacuation is voluntary at this point, but authorities are monitoring the situation and urge everyone to remain calm.
These lawyers are not public-spirited souls monitoring fair elections. They are warriors who want to make sure their side gets as many votes as possible, and to block as many of the other side's votes as possible. More for us, less for you. Except that it's you and me -- the public! -- that loses out as the litigation drags on.
The Attorney General is still embroiled in election litigation ... over the 2004 election.
And, instead of focusing on prosecuting criminals, at least part of my time in November is going to be spent in court, defending the Board of Elections from legal challenges by both sides.
The courts need to re-establish the "political question" doctrine, and decline to micro-manage elections. That constitutional authority belongs to the Secretary of State, not the courts -- and not to the lawyers.
