DOJ Quotes GA Republicans’ Own Words Against Them To Challenge Voting Law | Talking Points Memo

Georgia House Speaker David Ralston-meet your friends hoist and petard.

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This is a very broad challenge to several aspects of the GA law. If the DOJ has confidence that they can win on this in conservative courts, that will say a lot for the durability of voting rights in the courts.

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But just until her term is up right?

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“If elections were like coastal cities, absentee balloting would be the shady part of town down near the docks you do not want to wander into because the chance of being shanghaied is significant,”

When accused of using racist tactics, by all means defend yourself with a racial stereotype.

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Inbred hillbillies are too stupid to know to keep their mouths shut.

“I never said the Conservatives are stupid. I said most stupid people are Conservative. It is a fact so obvious, no gentleman may demur.”
– John Stuart Mill, 1866

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Also disproportionately affects those who have a harder time getting out of work to vote in person on election day.

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Nice try but the “legislature as a whole” is what’s moving the bill. They speak as “whole” in how they vote and that’s on the record.

Please don’t insult the intelligence of folks in here with lame and long ago debunked spin.

You shouldn’t bogart whatever you’re smoking.

Who is a jerk? Goldman? Not rally. He’s a bright guy but I agree that how many times do we have to hear this “we gonna get em” shit before we just say STFU until you do.

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With Republicans now, every accusation is a confession, that’s all.

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I don’t think the GOP went after stupid by feigning being stupid because they are in fact stupid. They realized what’s been the truth FOREVER…in the USA. There’s more stupid here than anything else. If they round up the stupid they have it made. What better way to round up the stupid that playing stupid…

It was never “the Southern Strategy”…it was the stupid strategy and it just so happens the South in rich in that resource.

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Thanks for the unfounded lecture. I’ll give it all the consideration it is due.

Or don’t have access to reliable transportation.

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Was Giuliani sowing doubt in the election, or was he just giving these guys courage and talking points to use in an overthrow of the American gov’t. Same / same, but different.

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Georgia Republicans did exactly what North Carolina Republicans did- they wrote a law knowing how they were going to use it. NC NAACP v McCrory was a loss for Republicans because they analyzed how people voted and went after the ways that African Americans voted, because they know that most African Americans vote for Democrats. Georgia Republicans already know that majority African American voting precincts have longer wait times, so they are working to 1) make those wait times longer and 2) make mail-in voting harder because Dems voted mail-in big time.

On what planet? Republicans gave the LEGISLATURE (ie- themselves) the right to oversee the elections process- that’s not neutral. They have a conflict of interest. You are implying the law had a disparate impact, but this law has disparate treatment- it was written to go after specific groups of people.

Everyone could see how this was going to play out, but maybe we were wrong to question it, so let’s see how Republicans are applying this new law. Going after Dems on Elections Boards already- that didn’t take long.

I would agree, but the reps ACTED on their opinions and used those opinions, because in their opinions, after seeing Perdue and Loefler fail to win majorities and then go down in runoffs, they are scared. Their bill and vote lined up with their opinions. They even went so far as to kneecap the Republican Secretary of State for denying Trump.

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See Pence, Mike, aka Q-Tip

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“The Georgia Legislature knew from debate within the General Assembly and witness testimony at hearings that SB 202 would harm Black voters, yet it rushed through a hasty process to pass SB 202 while relying on debunked and pretextual claims of voter fraud as a rationale,” the suit alleged.

This is a good thing to read into the record when the House is holding hearing on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

At the very least, it will put SCOTUS conservatives in an awkward spot trying to explain why states like Georgia shouldn’t be under any new preclearance rules.

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Apparently some comments still require a snark tag. :confounded: Supra

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I suppose if a goober replaces Hobbs the legislature will restore the power back to that office. But I believe Katie Hobbs is gonna be running for governor this time around as Gov. Ducey is term limited. Now he may challenge Mark Kelly for John McCain’s old Senate seat. Kelly is generally very highly thought of around here.
As I stated I think the Goobers in our state Legislature are cowards afraid of a fair, open and honest election. They gotta hide behind “fraudits” and conspiracy theory to justify themselves.

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“White punks on dope.”
— The Tubes

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