“It looks pretty bad to me,” Floyd said.
Then STOP IT!
It must be very taxing to enter a poll in NC.
I see what you did there, steviedee111.
Pretty much everything Republicans do is done to discriminate against minorities.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Judge James A. Wynn Jr. asked pointed questions about why public assistance IDs, used disproportionally by minorities, were not acceptable in the final version of the law.
“Why did they take it out?” asked Wynn, a former North Carolina state appeals judge.
Bingo. Game, set, and match.
Why would only new voters have to follow these laws? Couldn’t there be a whole lot of old voters who might be voting illegally? Is there really evidence of a wave of voter fraud sweeping over North Carolina?
If anyone thinks that who appoints Judge (aka Trump v. Clinton) does not matter, these voting rights cases are extremely important examples of why we need to elect Hillary.
Its sort of hard to have a “revolution” with new people voting when the Courts and state legislatures prevent people from voting. And when the Courts look at these voter suppression efforts, the D or R of the Judge makes a big difference.
The trial court judge, who never saw voter suppression by his party he did not approve of, was appointed by George W. Bush. This panel was appointed by Clinton (Motz) and Obama (Wynn and Floyd). The 4th Circuit used to be the most conservative in the US, it is not now, after Obama was able to make a number of appointments.
The decision from the 4th Circuit allowing a transgender teen to use his chosen gender restroom was another example of the impact judicial appointments have.
The Courts are at a tipping point now. If Clinton is elected, voter suppression will be ended by the Courts of Appeal and likely the Supreme Court (which will likely take a case rather quickly, perhaps even finding the decision overturning the VRA was “wrongly decided” if they have 5 votes). If Trump gets in, expect more voter suppression, all designed to lock Republicans into power for the next generation.
I hope anyone thinking for even a second about not supporting Hillary carefully considers these things.
The attorneys for the state woiuld have everyone believe that the legislature sat down and said “what can we do to increase confidence in the voting system.” The judge should have asked “was there any evidence that the citizens of North Carolina lacked confidence in the voting system?” The answer is no.
Lawyers have been getting way too brazen about telling lies to the courts. Look at the abortion restrictions. The lawyers walked in and told the courts that the legislature was concerned about women’s health when there is no evidence whatsoever that there was a problem at the clinics. At least Posner had the courage to tell the lawyers that their arguments were difficult to take seriously. It’s time they come straight out and tell them they don’t appreciate being lied to.
So what else is new? The Trumpy Old Party KNOWS there is only one way they can win an election.
CHEAT.
That means taking the vote from anyone, anyway, anywhere they can until their shrinking minority can claim to be the ONLY voting majority.
Think of how America would really look if it were not for this thin line of judges putting a stop to all this Manure that the TOP is pushing under the banner of "Voter Fraud. It’s a fraud, sure enough, but not the one they want you to see before your right to vote goes away. And sooner or later, they will try to take those rights from Everyone who doesn’t see things their way.
Depending on judges is a fine safeguard. But it should never come to that. This sort of “All American THEFT” should have been stopped before it started. In a Congress unpolluted by people who are still fighting an “uncivil War” against anyone who isn’t the Republicans favorite color: Yellow. And I don’t mean Asian, I mean the color that matches the stripes down Republican backs.
“It was not a nefarious thing,” said Thomas A. Farr, an attorney representing the state.
Perjury. Boom…put him away.
Governor McCrory and the NC legislature are all about equality. Just like Anatole France once said,
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”Everyone in NC has equal access to approved IDs, provided of course that they can spend a day going to the DMV (and assuming that it is in fact feasible for them to reach their nearest DMV, which could be dozens of miles away).
I’m sure they don’t see a problem with the law. They want the courts to close the issue as “Will not fix. Working as intended.”
But the law’s authors said they were aiming to prevent voter fraud and increase public confidence in elections.
Shouldn’t the onus be on the State to prove voter fraud is a significant issue (it’s not) than on the plaintiffs to prove they’re being discriminated against?
I mean the question shouldn’t be whether more or less African-Americans voted in 2014 vs 2010; but whether voter fraud is even an issue. Because if it’s not, then there’s no reason for these changes by the State’s own admission.
The GOP crooks are trying to steal yet another election.
The judges finally got suspicious when they found out that the photo IDs would be printed in black-and-white, but only using white ink…
Similarly, Donald Trump was bragging that his club in Palm Beach was “open to anyone,” but as the NYT’s inimitable Gail Collins has pointed out, what he really means by that is “anyone who has $100K handy for the membership fee.” I guess he’s really a Republican at heart after all.
It would have been had the Supreme Court not, in effect, gutted Section 5 of the VRA.
They blocked use of public assistance IDs in NC for the same reason they barred student IDs in Texas while allowing concealed carry ID’s. It is about voter suppression of the other party’s voters. That is the fraud in all this.
Exactly, why do the Republicans not have to provide evidence that there was voter fraud that needed to be addressed and prove that these measured are the best vehicle to do it, without imposing burdens on any one particular group of voters.