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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1331663
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1331663
The majority opinion was signed by Appellate Court Judge James Crow.
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How did they address the issue of record keeping in their order? My understanding is that the state doesn’t have accurate accounting of court fees so how can it be expected of ex felons?
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Despite the fact that the 108th United States Congress was controlled by the Republican Party, Senate Democrats refused to allow Pryor to be confirmed, criticizing him as an extremist, citing statements he had made such as referring to the Supreme Court as “nine octogenarian lawyers” and saying that Roe v. Wade was the “worst abomination in the history of constitutional law.”[16]
During the confirmation hearing, Pryor was criticized in particular for filing an amicus brief in 2003 on behalf of the State of Alabama in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Lawrence v. Texas that urged the Court to uphold Texas penal code § 21.06, which classifies homosexual sex as a misdemeanor.[17] Pryor wrote in the brief that “this Court has never recognized a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage, let alone to engage in homosexual sodomy,”[18] further arguing that the recognition of a constitutional right to sodomy would “logically extend” to activities like "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, incest and pedophilia.
Courtesy Wiki
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Didn’t Lebron James start a fund to help felons repay fees?
I assume that there is interest accruing and late fees and all kinds of shit to make it impossible to repay, but maybe I am being pessimistic.
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Ok Bloomberg / Steyer. A bigly opportunity to put your money to good use.
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“A person could with good intent register to vote thinking that they’ve paid all their restitution, only to find afterwards that the state locates a stray record somewhere.”
Oh, c’mon, no State would do that!
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Motherfuckers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Pryor_Jr.
Make no mistake: he is absolutely part of the problem and this was a pro-Trump political decision from a white Christian nationalist who has described Roe v. Wade as the “worst abomination in the history of constitutional law” and wrote an amicus in Lawrence v. Texas arguing the Court should uphold criminal laws against being gay…" “this Court has never recognized a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage, let alone to engage in homosexual sodomy,”
He needs to be impeached and I don’t care if we have to make shit up to do it. He is defending what he sees as his chance to have a POTUS who will get Roe overturned and help white Christians establish their permanent minority-rules hegemony.
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That’s what you could call some bad Pryors.
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Pryor was also on Trump’s initial list of potential Supreme Court nominees.
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Your pessimism is warranted.
The reality is that Florida doesn’t even know how much fees are due and need to be paid.
This is an absolute travesty of an order, and makes the idea that the US is a democracy a cruel joke.
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Pryor’s opinion acknowledged that “the felons complain that it is sometimes difficult to ascertain the facts that determine eligibility to vote.” But, he wrote, “The Due Process Clause does not require States to provide individual process to help citizens learn the facts necessary to comply with laws of general application.”
Florida Rao.
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“Not my problem”.
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Ha…didn’t see that…beat me to it
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He was able to do that because he’s all hopped on cilantro.
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You can’t pay a fee when the court doesn’t know what the amount is, or even if you owe anything. And if you are told you don’t owe anything, and you go vote, then they later find some paperwork saying you do owe, guess what, your action in voting was a new crime.
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Behold the Anti-Democratic Party and their judicial activist brethren.
24th amendment? Never heard of it!
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““The big problem with this ruling is Florida doesn’t know how much, if any, a former felon owes,””
Feature, not a bug.
“You have to pay all your fees and fines first!!!”
“OK…pulls out checkbook…how much?”
“We’re not telling.”
How that’s not an unconstitutional deliberately impossible barrier to exercising the right to vote is fucking beyond me. We literally need to start removing the problem in our government, politics and plutocracy the old fashioned way. They need to live in constant, abject, mortal fear of us. It’s the only way.
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Not the only way, but it should be in the forefront of their “fine legal minds” at all times.
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