Discussion: Judge OKs Voter Registration Rules In 3 States For Now

A bit more background on why there is a vacancy and how long it has existed would be helpful. How long has it been open? Has President Obama nominated someone? Is it languishing in the Senate?

Other articles have reported that Newby is a Kobach stooge.

It would have been nice if TPM had done a bit more legwork here rather than just posting an AP article without much of the necessary background.

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Something tells me this might be reversed on appeal. You’ve got the DoJ saying it thinks the plaintiffs are right, you’ve got prima facie violation of existing law, and you’ve got irreparable harm to the plaintiffs. On the other side you’ve got a guy who is claiming the authority to act on his own without the consent of the rest of his ostensible co-equals. A TRO seems not implausible, and certainly not worthy of rejecting with the weirdly apocalyptic language this judge used. (Of course the relief sought in a TRO is the same as if the plaintiff won. Temporarily. That’s kinda the nature of a TRO when someone is suing to block a law or regulation.)

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Amen! If That sort of thing happens, maybe TPM will take a genuine crack at hiring some real reporters,rather than a staff that knows nothing much more than how to minimally correct wire copy. Who knows, in eight or ten years, TPM might actually start to “look and feel” like a for really real “News” site. We’ll have run thru a few more political hacks and dishwater Presidents by that time. Most of them Republicans, by the looks for things. Learning is a slow process for some.

Any reversal had better happen soon. Like before November.

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“These demands are dramatized all the more by the fact the United States Department of Justice has somehow decided to consent to such remarkable relief!” Leon wrote.

He actually wrote that down. In writing. And ink-jetted it onto a piece of paper. And then issued it. In a court of law. In the United States. Bless his heart.

No naked partisan politics for Dick Leon (DickLe on?). You’d never guess he was a Bush appointee.

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even sooner than that, since this is about voter registration. (And those states do not have same-day registration at the polls.)

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“We’ll have run thru a few more political hacks and dishwater Presidents by that time. Most of them Republicans, by the looks for things”

Would you describe yourself as a Dreamer or what? Presidents…most of them Republicans…HAHAHAHAHAHA

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What a coincidence that this decision was released just days after the Supreme Court went on break. No problem though, they’ll be back in…October. And voter registration for Kansas doesn’t close until October 18th. Plenty of time, wouldn’t you say. /s

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