The future of abortion access in Ohio will be decided on Tuesday, when voters thumbs up or down a ballot proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
Hopefully the purged voters were republicans.
GOP America: Home of the Knave, Land of the Free…to Cheat!
Nah. They would have checked Party affiliation before the purge.
abortion rights supporters have money, polls and the recent history of other red-state abortion proposals on their side; the opponents have various schemes of essentially legalized cheating on theirs.
Thanks, Kate, for calling out their tactics so clearly, The Antide cult depends heavily on underhanded dishonesty to thwart the will of the majority. They count of their chosen judges to ‘validate’ that dishonesty.
It will be great to see Ohio voters speak loudly and allow abortion access in their state on Tuesday despite the legalized cheating of the fascist cult.
People named after Founding Fathers or with too many high scoring Scrabble letters in their names. Just a guess.
GOP = If we can’t win on the merits, Cheat.
If it fails, a six-week ban will very likely spring back into action, aided by the right-wing high court
Whose members have plenty of money to send their wives, daughters, and mistresses to New York as needed.
And it is still going to pass by double digits.
“Democratic and nonpartisan voters in Ohio are winning the vote-by-mail fight in the November election on abortion and marijuana, an OCJ/WEWS analysis found. Despite being an off-year, elections workers say early voting numbers are exceeding expectations.”
And anybody named Mandela.
Nope.
It is “College Tour” or “Trip to Disneyland” or “European Vacation.”
Wink, wink…
REMINDER ::: This is the political party convinced it is morally superior to others in all ways. Many (like the SOTH) have convinced themselves that the Bible tells them to act this way and that Jesus was an early Middle-Eastern Republican.
I am really hoping this initiative passes, but I also expect that SCOOH is going to gut it within a year or two.
No need to involve the court, just follow the lead of the Florida legislature in “clarifying” the constitutional amendment restoring the voting rights of felons.
Legislation that only stood because of SCOFL fuckery.
It’s fine to attack LaRose over the voter purge if, as it appears, the move isn’t authorized by Ohio law. But if it’s actually true that the 27,000 people in question haven’t voted in four years—that they didn’t vote in Trump vs. Biden 2020, didn’t vote in 2022 (when J.D. Vance vs. Tim Ryan was on the ballot, along with a gubernatorial election, Congressional elections, and so on), and didn’t vote on Issue 1 in August—it seems unlikely that too many of them would vote this month, either. And far from clear that the net benefit of the purge would be against the amendment rather than for it.
On the other hand, if LaRose is lying about the voting history of those 27,000…
Whenever Republicans ‘write’ or ‘rewrite’ a bill it is always the opposite of what it says. Like a Freedom to Vote act circumscribes the RIGHT to vote. I sure hope Ohio voters see thru this.
Jeez Louise, that was a hard read. Thanks for posting. I had never heard of the AEDPA. The Clinton administration left behind a lot of unexploded ordinance, didn’t it?
From the article:
Standing in Schexnayder’s way — and in the way of all the 5th Circuit petitioners who tried to take their cases to federal court — was the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, a federal law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, at the height of his efforts to portray himself as a tough-on-crime Democrat. The law, known by its unwieldy initials as AEDPA, has made it all but impossible for federal judges to overturn criminal rulings by state courts.
AEDPA was supposed to help deter domestic terrorism and expedite delays in carrying out capital punishment, but it did neither. The time between sentencing and execution is almost twice as long today as it was 27 years ago, and by most measures domestic terrorism has increased. But the law has significantly undermined habeas corpus, the constitutional safeguard that gives prisoners the right to challenge their incarceration.
One of the act’s toughest restrictions, and the one keeping the Louisiana prisoners from taking their cases to federal court, requires federal judges to defer to state court rulings in all but the narrowest of circumstances. Federal judges can’t step in just because a state court proceeding or ruling violated a prisoner’s rights. They can reverse the state ruling only if it was so wrong that not a single “reasonable jurist” would agree with it. Before AEDPA, federal judges provided a critical safeguard. Unlike state judges, most of whom face reelection and can be loath to reverse convictions for fear of appearing “soft on crime,” they are appointed for life and are theoretically free from political pressure
Normal political behavior far as I can tell.
For context… the first election I could vote in was in 1968. At the time being strongly against the war in Vietnam and a fan of neither party I registered and voted as an independent “no party” type person. I kept that way until trump came along. I voted against him in 2016. In 2018 I seen and heard enough of donnie so I reregistered as a democrat.
I find the man sickening. He has zero redeeming qualities as a man. Then there’s politics. trumpis not a republican, he’s a fascist authortarian wanna be dictator…