Maybe they should have to pay back the room and board charges too.
Egad these people.
Appeals Court: FL Must Allow Ex-Felons Too Poor To Pay Back Court Fees To Vote | Talking Points Memo
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Very very hot in the Summer Gets freezing in the winter , That area is what we call Southern Georgie
Very Red
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Fact Check: Rick Scott is a Lex Luthor stand-in.
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Thanks.
Looked at the average monthly temps on the computer and it didnāt look all that bad.
All right we can go with that
Evil Inherent
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Having to go to a court and make that argument ā with documentation ā is a poll tax in itself. But not enough of one for the republicans.
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This thing is a big deal down here. DeSantis and his boyz are terrified of the prospect of ex-felons voting. I doubt DeSantis actually won his position ( That goes for Scott too ) but margins are so close here you can fudge them across the line. If you add 100,000 new voters to the rolls ( as Floridians voted to do ) and those guys break 60% for Democrats the fudge gap may be too big to pull off. The Florida GOP has run out of voter suppression options ( perhaps they can screw college students a bit more ) so thereās no other way to offset Felon Voters. I think theyāll get the law in effect eventually as thereās always a wingnut Judge to do that, like Roberts, but for now theyāre nervous.
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Lake City isnāt much. Fine dining at the Suwanee Swifty and Bud Lite cans on the side of the road. Itās not rural as folks call it. Itās desolate but in an hour you can be in GāVille or the Apalachicola which are OK.
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Like, 12th day out of the 19 in this month so far with measurable snow kind of freezing cold?
Side note: Iām really starting to hate this winter BS.
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Will be interesting if this gets to SCOTUS, given that there is a specific enacted constitutional amendment about this nonsense. And the 10th, allowing the States Rights, doesnāt apply, since the 24th is already law:
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Last time it snowed in Florida was 1989 I think and that was about 1/4 inch that was gone in a day. Itās about 73 degrees here in Jax right now.
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I guess the meaning of freezing for a Florida person is different than freezing for a guy from Minnesota. It was 7.6 below zero this morning outside my house, high today will be 7or 8 degrees and then 14 below tonight. Then a week of mid 30ās for highs starting Friday.
I have run in shorts and a sweatshirt in the high 30s up here in the Winter. To me, thatās kind of balmy Winter weather.
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Different for a Colorado person too. We get that kind of cold once in awhile, but below 0 (Fahrenheit) is fuck that noise territory for me. Theyāre telling us that we may get to 50 this weekend. While Iām excited about that, Iām worried that itās going to melt the snow in the back yard. Thereās a lot of poo thatās going to need to be picked up.
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So now the systemic impoverishment of the black and minority communities comes back to haunt FLās bigots. I love it. What black man getting out of prison after 10 years is going to be able to pay some kind of trumped up amount of court fees and penalties and what not? Iām guessing ZEROā¦which was the the whole point of the racist bullshit of putting him in prison for 10 years for possessing a small amount of pot or coke in the first placeā¦i.e., ruining him. So now, theyāre pretty much all going to be able to prove inability to pay and get to vote. Delicious ironyā¦nom nom nomā¦
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GOP found another way to be dead wrong in a way that lends itself to deliberate tools, being themselves. Shocker.
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On topic: Rhetorical question, how/why is it that peoplesā right to vote should logically be tied to unpaid fees. Whatās next? Miss your car inspection renewal and you canāt vote. The whole thing is nonsense.
Off topic: When democrats next control the senate and presidency, there needs to be an effort to substantially expand the bench at all levels of the federal judiciary. I donāt know whatās involved in doing so but I donāt think there is anything precluding this from being done other than history/precendent. Well, Moscow Mitch broke that glass. The courts are no longer legitimate. This is a very obvious issue in the supreme court post Garland. But it is also a BIG issue in the rest of the federal courts. I donāt give a damn if the Republicans howl about it. It has to be done.
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Isnāt Val Demings from Orlando? There must be some blue spatter in that sea of orange.
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Yup anything below 50
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Yes Orange county (Fl) and Orlando are blue. Val was Police chief
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