The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a lower court ruling that would have pushed back Wisconsin’s voter registration deadline and required the state to count all absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day as long as they were received by November 9.
Republican-led legislature’s arguments that a federal court should not change the rules of an election so close to Election Day
This is going to play out very well … if you want to steal an election.
They not only want to steal the election, if they can flip a few seats they will have a veto proof majority.
“Good luck and G-d bless, Wisconsin. You are going to need it.”
Yeah, thanks for the assist, judges.
ETA: I do understand the whole bit with the legislature sitting on their asses and not doing this, but hey, why should they, right? And even if they had agreed, it would have ended up getting denied at the Supreme level again, yada yada. BS
It is just uphill all of the fucking way, isn’t it?
This is no way to run a country, but that being said, we are ready for any damned thing you want to throw at us. We are going to vote this asshole out like marauding zombie hordes pouring over the walls of a makeshift fortress. And we are going to take a lot of his Republican friends with him.
The Anti-Democratic Party can’t win, if people vote. Having sacrificed every shred of decency to their corporate overlords, they have no other card to play besides voter suppression.
I think relying on Federal Courts to save the Wisconsin Democratic party is folly. Moscow Mitch has had years to pack the Federal Courts and it shows.
Republicans have never been weaker. Democrats have never been more mobilized. Democrats need to roll up their sleeves and do everything they can to GOTV.
political rather than judicial officials should get to decide when a pandemic justifies voting changes.
Justice is blind, after all.
Who knew?
Republicans = Death
I assume that Democrats will seek emergency relief from the Supreme Court, which has been so solicitous of voting rights this year.
The Supreme Court who previously said - in remote session because of COVID - sorry, no exceptions, go stand in lines where 80 voting locations are consolidated into one.
A Reagan and two Dubya judges…and god help me if Easterbrook doesn’t look the fucking part of a nefarious Reaganite partisan. Read his wikipedia page. He’s like fucking Frasier in a robe and likes to use big words to try to prove his intellectual heft, like 'pettifoggery" and “ineluctable.” Fucking assclown.
Which is exactly what they should find coming for them.
It’s a race… Trump and trumpism versus Trump and trumpism. Can Trump remove Biden supporters from the voting rolls faster than he is convincing his own supporters to vote for Biden?
Looks like no lessons were learned by the Republicans from the April election in Wisconsin. Voters will turn out. People are pissed and this will serve to motivate them more.
I’m not taking my foot off the accelerator here in Wisconsin yet, but I think Trump has already lost the state. I have only anecdotal information based on the relative quantification of lawn signs in the allegedly Republican strongholds of Waukesha County, and the population of Biden signs on those lawns significantly exceeds what I observed for Obama-Biden in 2008 and 2012 and most definitely far more than what I observed for Clinton-Kaine in 2016.
I think Trump’s ass is on fire, BUT KEEP WORKING LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT.
Because. It. Does.
Now that is what I call suspense.
Easterbrook is a known quantity. I don’t find his vocabulary to be the problem.
Who’s “Frasier in a robe”?
The arrogant, smug, self-satisfied, hoity-toity Kelsey Grammer character…
Perhaps when the whole Clowns of Death Circus comes to town, they can explain to everyone why they have to risk their lives to hail the Marmalade Mussolini.
At least Donnie doesn’t have to worry about getting Covid from his supporters now.
