Conservative rabble rouser James O’Keefe of Project Veritas released a little video today saying that he was tailing what he called a “pastor bus” in Philadelphia, “bussing [sic] people around, maybe they shouldn’t be doing it.”
To be clear, providing transportation for people going to the polls is not illegal, and many black churches around the country have pursued a “souls to the polls” program in election years to encourage their church members to vote. That O’Keefe is in Philadelphia is no coincidence, though; Pennsylvania is a state that’s key to Trump’s path to victory, and in order to win he’ll need more white voters in the western part of the state to turn out. If Philadelphia’s strong minority community turns out in high numbers, that will be good news for Clinton.
Democrats are certainly worried about the intimidation of minority voters in the Philadelphia area, but a federal judge just ruled against a court order that would have banned what Bloomberg called “aggressive polling-place activity such as invasions of physical space, aggressive questioning and veiled or actual threats of physical violence that they claim could chill the turnout for Clinton,” by Trump supporters, most notably, Roger Stone. Courts ruled similarly in Ohio, New Jersey, Nevada and Arizona.
