Iowa’s New Voter Suppression Law Immediately Smacked With Lawsuit

A day after Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R) signed a highly restrictive voting bill into law, a civil rights group has already filed a lawsuit, saying that the law puts an undue burden on Iowans’ constitutional right to vote.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1363978

Dang it! We may not have succeeded at rigging a win for Trump, but we’ll be ready next time!

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Constitution? Since WHEN did the Republicans care about that except as a talking point?

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These new voter laws are absolutely an attempt to restrict voter turnout and limit D/democratic participation. But the current SCOTUS’s position on voting rights these days seems to be that as long as the name of the bill isn’t literally “The 2021 Keep Minorities From Voting Law,” they can go nuts with whatever restrictions they want.

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What’s strange is there isn’t a need for it (from a Republican standpoint). Iowa is firmly red and not changing soon.

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It is shocking, shocking to find out white people don’t want not so white people to have a voice in government.

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It’s also a fine prop for carrying around in your pocket and waving in front of crowds.
As for the meaning of the document and stare decisis, well you know, “activists judges…”

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Trump purity test.

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Who needs GOPers when you have asshole Democrats? Mark Kelly is from AZ too. Why is it that he’s not a douchenozzle and she is?

Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema was one of eight Democratic senators to vote against a $15 minimum wage amendment to the American Rescue Plan, so why is she the one taking heat over it?

Because Sinema didn’t just vote against it. She turned her vote against it into a personal show for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, tapping him on the shoulder and checking to see if he was watching as she gave a dramatic thumbs down—not a casual gesture to make her vote with a minimum of fuss, but an attempt to be sure she was seen and taken note of.

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Now we can look forward to an endless stream of lawsuits.

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I think Iowa has the right to vote enshrined in its constitution.
The Georgia bill guts"Souls to the Polls" which is Sunday voting would also negatively impact Orthodox Jews who obviously can’t vote on Saturday during early voting so Sunday is far more convenient for them. Leave it to Georgia Republicans to alienate several constituencies. They might as well pass the Lester Maddox honorary axe handle act.

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“The Bill is largely a grab-bag of amendments and new restrictions that lack any unifying theme other than making both absentee and election day voting more difficult for lawful Iowa voters.”

The unifying theme is limiting the participation of Voters who aren’t reliably Republican.

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At the conclusion of Ken Burns’ PBS “Civil War” series, it was stated that the Civil War never really came to an end. How true, how true! How shameful, how shameful!

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Seinfeld did an amusing episode featuring " bubble boy" …a real life version showcasing the residents of an entire state living in fantasy land is not nearly as funny…

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In the newest GA legislation to curb voting they do carve out to allow absentee voting for religious reasons, but they still have early voting sooo?

O/T butit’snot
Does anyone in any other state than MO have legislation being introduced and discussed on where, and when protests can happen? But it’s not just restricting where, it’s also giving motorists permission to hit protesters in the street or on highways.

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All of these new voting laws across the country seem surgically designed to excise the Black vote like a cancer from the body politic.

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Maddox act under consideration as we go to press…

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I think Iowa may have been chosen specifically to get the law before the SCOTUS. If this law can be demonstrated NOT to be onerous on the citizens of Iowa, it may then be used as a model for voter suppression nationwide. You’re right. There is no need for this law in Iowa, but that’s the entire point. Iowa is serving a larger, national purpose here.

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She was mimicking the former Senator of AZ when he bucked his party. She’s attempting to make a display of being independent and win over the Republicans there like Cindy McCain who reject the current version of the Trump Party.

This kind of telegraphing is less important than tweeting. The $15/min wage had 8 democrats vote against it, Sinema included. Now that $15 has been set as the baseline democratic position, any deviation from that will be seen as a move toward bipartisanship. A min wage set at $11-$13 and pegged to inflation is where we are going to likely land. That’s a minimum of a 51% increase on the current rate AND it will insure that we don’t have to have this fight again in 5-10 years when normal rates of inflation would start to materially erode that base.

It has the added benefit of giving AOC a reason to be angry with democrats and red state dems the ability to say they bucked their party. Legislators only tell the truth when they vote. Everything else is a political ad.

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