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Rising whine about “activist judges” at FOXNews in 5…4…3…2…1…
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Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton did not immediately comment on the ruling.
It can be tough for inmates to arrange an outside line on short notice.
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And even though it was blatantly illegal from the start, hey, we still ran an actual for reals election under those rules. I’m sure it didn’t effect the results at all, though.
The right wing has discovered that the wheels of justice run slowly, so they can throw up blatantly unconstitutional stuff and make the left and the poor spend their limited money smacking down stuff like this and not spend it on things like voter outreach or get out the vote.
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This is the section that makes it harder to prove but, in a way, hopefully makes it harder to defend.
A Democratic Congress and POTUS can at least work on restoring Sec. 5.
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This is great news…and coming out of TEXAS to boot.
Excellent.
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Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton did not immediately comment on the ruling.
Maybe thats because he’s a little busy now that he is under indictment and all…
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Unelected activist judges…
Since the concept of disparate impact survived SC review, seems this should hold.
Of course the SC is another set of unelected activist judges (ask president Gore)
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Hey Feds… wanna smack down Kansas voter ID laws next?
Thanks!
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There may be a favorable outcome in North Carolina where voter suppression is on trial right now. If there’s a god in heaven, Kansas will be confronted next.
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Given that the 5th Circuit is usually very conservative, this is a big deal.
I wonder if the TX AG can appeal from his cell?
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Man, they next election there’s going to be like 10 billion write-ins for Calderon or something.
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Why is it that the party that screams the loudest about protecting the constitution wants to disenfranchise people from exercising their constitutional rights?
Voter fraud is just a damned smokescreen. Due to Citizens United, which helps destroy the equity of the individual vote, and continued illegal (as the Court decided) disenfranchisement of voters, the real fraud comes right from the Corporate Whores in Congress controlled by the GOP’s 1%…our modern robber barons. The plutocrats are destroying our republic for their own personal gain and with their ever growing control. You want to help out the GOP oligarchs, then you might as well start calling them ‘Master’, because you are giving them your rights to representation, and giving up your own human dignity.
Rather than try to diversify their base the GOPigs have chosen to implement voter suppression.
Oh…Has FOX called this Texas court a “liberal activist” court yet?
This movement for IDs and restrictions is voter suppression, plain and simple. It’s a solution for which there is NO problem. The cesspool that IS the Republican Party of today should be drained and emptied on the garbage heap of history. The GOP is rotten to the core.
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Just a question for any legal experts out there. Louisiana residents have been required for decades to show a driver’s license at the polls, and we’re also in the 5th circuit. Does this ruling strike down our law, too? Is there some mechanism that would make a voter ID law valid in one state and not another?
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Texas GOPers will claim the law was just anti dem not racist. And keeping students from voting but not concealed weapon permit holders supports that claim. But no doubt many Texas GOPers like a restrictive voting law that blocks many more minorities (than white folks) from voting.
Maybe many Texas legislators wish they’d done this instead:
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The article implys the full appeals court decided thusly. So the next step is SCOTUS?
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There are a number of stories about HRC’s position on voting rights. This is one of them. We will not hear anything comparable to this from an R candidate which only confirms that they embrace voting suppression.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/06/04/3665728/hillary-clinton-voting-rights/
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Pope Antonin I is on record stating that there isn’t a constitutional right to vote. Accordingly, he doesn’t much care what the states do to restrict voting. Counting votes is a different matter, apparently.
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Texas is expected to appeal the ruling that its law must be altered, either to the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans or to the United States Supreme Court
Gov. Greg Abbott did not say whether the state would appeal. But he did say, “Texas will continue to fight for its voter ID requirement to ensure the integrity of elections in the Lone Star State.”
If A = B, and B = C, then A = C.
$25 fee to obtain state-issued ID.
State-issued ID required to vote.
$25 fee required to vote.
Any judge who rules otherwise should be removed from the bench, plain and simple.
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