Meet Rachel Palmer Hooper, Federalist-linked "have-more" destroying a man's life for voting

[lostnfound]

What does this woman NOT have. Such a nice suit. She’s an attorney for Baker Hostetler in Houston, and she has worked on BIG cases, representing energy companies, Madoff clients, a telecom company. Now, as of January 4, 2021, she’s a partner at the firm.

But in March 2020 she turned her attention to this man, Hervis Rogers.


Mr. Rogers doesn’t have much but in 2020 one thing he did have a lot of was patience to go vote in the democratic primary. He waited for 7 hours and made it on TV about that. In 2020 he was regaining his right to vote, because his parole for a burglary that happened in 1995 was ending, which meant he was going to able to vote again in 2020. Unfortunately the election in which he voted was held in March 2020, and the sharp-eyed “has-more” Rachel Palmer Hooper noted that Mr. Rogers’ parole was not expiring until 6-13-20 (although the handwriting on the “6” looks more like a “U”).

So on a time line we have F for felony, P for parole, V for voted and E for parole end, by month:
Fxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.
xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxPooooooo.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.
.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.
oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.oooooooooooo.ooVooEaaaaaa.aaaaaa
Where “x” = a month behind bars amd “o” is a month on parole and “a” is when he would have been allowed to vote for being past his parole.

Ms. Rachel Palmer Hooper used her company email “@bakerlaw.com” in the records request so one has to assume that she was working in her employed capacity at Baker law when she had this particular streak of meanness.

Rachel Hooper, a Republican precinct chair in Harris county, filed a formal complaint in March last year, saying Harris was ineligible to vote.

She obtained a copy of his voter registration application through a public records request and noted he had signed a statement indicating he had completed all punishment for a felony. The form only contains the warning in small print at the bottom of the application.

In an email to the Guardian last year, Hooper wrote: “As a former prosecutor, I want to give them the opportunity to investigate and take action. As a voter, I just felt a sense of obligation to file this complaint after learning that Mr Rogers was in violation of Texas election law.”

Mr. Rogers is sitting in jail, unable to afford bail, for having voted. It wasn’t enough for the Republican Party to ensure that he had to wait in 7 hour lines in Texas. Nope. They want to make an example out of him.

Too bad he doesn’t have the money that I imagine Rachel Palmer Hooper has. If he was a rich law partner, he would have had a safe way to participate in American democracy. He could have made whatever secret donations (or non-secret donations) that he wanted to make to the candidates of his choice, without having to cast a single ballot. No 7-hour wait required. No pesky questions about being a former felon.

Oh, Ms. Rachel Palmer Hoover. Maybe you know something about this man that isn’t public, from your time as a prosecutor. You did prosecute some atrocious crimes. But maybe this time you were just on a partisan anti-democracy witch hunt in order to get a bunch of gold stars. Ugh. Who cares about a man who already spent 10 years in prison for burglary finding himself in jail 25 years after his crime for voting months short of when it would have been legal for him to do so. Certainly not you. Ugh.

https://www.bakerlaw.com/RachelPalmerHooper

[MLAA]

1. Uneffingbelievable

Heartbreaking.

[oasis]

2. Sickening. The guy had to work to low paying jobs. He has lost his

freedom as well as those jobs.

Cruelty is the point.

[PortTack]

3. Sick MF beatch! I would sure like to wipe that sick smile off her face

[lostnfound]

5. Maybe she is just signing off work by underlings. I'd be interested to know who client is

[wcmagumba]

4. Seems to be the season of the witch (and not the good kind)...

between this one, guilfoyle and others the hatred for the have little by the have lots (and lots) and in the name of their republican AK packin Jesus want more...

[IcyPeas]

6. Her email is in the link in the OP...

[lostnfound]

8. I intentionally did not show it. But I'd be curious if this was paid work for Baker. Nt

[Kingofalldems]

7. Trump trolls are defending this.

[ShazzieB]

12. Because of course they are. 🙄

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Members of the Federalist Society tend to be assholes

This lady is a typical Federalist society asshole

[DanieRains]

10. If I Spoke My Mind I Would Be Arrested

The law is only for poor folk.

And Weisselberg may not have to go to jail after years of tax fraud.

[Skittles]

11. seems like the pupose is to intimidate black voters

nothing new for these fascists

[cate94]

13. This is sickening

I feel so sorry for this man.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. We're so relieved that Hervis Rogers is no longer in jail.

Link to tweet

[Takket]

15. huh: "representing energy companies, Madoff clients, a telecom company"

interesting...

I'm going to set aside all the legalities and ethics of this case, and focus on that line: "representing energy companies, Madoff clients, a telecom company".

This woman is a partner at a law firm and involved in some of the biggest cases. How does this even get on her radar? This is rather like lion chasing down a gazelle pausing to eat a mosquito. When she became aware why did she even get involved? An act like this is WAY too small and insignificant. Someone asked her to get involved. Who? Why?

[Ilsa]

16. $100,000 in bail, per Rachel Maddow last night.

He will lose his job and freedom from an innocent mistake.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Rogers was just released on 100K bail

Link to tweet