A federal judge on Thursday put on hold Tennessee’s law targeting voter registration drives.
U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger said that the groups challenging the law were likely to win the case on the merits and that allowing it to go into effect while their lawsuit is litigated would cause irreparable harm.
Typical right-wing TNGOP bullshit—called out by a judge who is far smarter than the local wingnuts.
This is a good thing, and the lawsuit can now proceed apace, with the GOP left holding the bag of dog shit they wanted to set afire on Tennessee’s front porch.
Tennessee’s law targeting voter registration drives.
Shorter version
"Too many coloreds trying to vote "
Jim Crow lives
"She called the law “troublingly vague,” and said the state had failed to explain why the new requirements and penalties were necessary.’
OMG, why are they necessary!? Because black! WTF? Was this judge born yesterday?!?! BECAUSE BLACK!!! Sheesh!
The Civil War never ended.
It’s as clear as black and white, isn’t it?
Trauger is a Clinton nominee. Enjoy the remnants of an independent judiciary while they remain healthy!
This idiotic law was motivated more by the right-wing lust for absolute power than it was by racial animus.
It’s just a convenient fact (for the GOP) that black voters are under-registered and that makes them the obvious target because they tend to vote for Democrats.
If it had been another group that was under-registered, that group would have been the target.
That it is racially focused is really just a bit of lagniappe for the GOP.
“The result is that the Act holds an organization to an increasingly more onerous standard the more effective it is at recruiting new voters,” Trauger said.
“But the League of Women Voters is antifa!”
I’m waiting for the whining that she is a Clinton appointee.
Well, based on the Supreme court’s decision yesterday allowing the Trump administration’s asylum policy to be implemented even while it’s being challenged in court, I’d say we don’t have that long.
OT but this is life and death:
Critically ill children testified before Congress yesterday saying that if they’re deported they will die because they will be taken off treatments that are keeping them alive. These are kids here legally. The letters they got said because the program they’re on has been stopped they are now illegally here and must leave by the day after tomorrow.
Admin people were also questioned. One had no answers at all. He could not say who had ordered this change yet his signature was on the letters. Another rebub held that this was all made up and fake while sitting at the very same table those kids were sitting at. He thinks those kids are fakes who do not have the various diseases that deform their bodies and put them in wheelchairs. It was, I think, the most heartless display I have ever heard. And the gent who signed the letters was asked directly by Lindsey Graham who’s policy change was this… and even he got no answer. The incompetence was astounding.
But these kids will be deported SATURDAY if nothing changes. Graham could phone trump about it and get this fixed in 10 minutes or less. Otherwise this is a mass of death sentences. Our administration will be committing murder of sick kids as state policy.
State sanctioned potential murder of 700 (approx) ill children.
Fill in epithets. I’m fresh out.
CODB
Both Maddow and O’Donnell on MSNBC have been on this for a couple of weeks, one patient who’s being treated in Oakland CA has been interviewed, her doctor’s been interviewed a couple of time. What’s unfolding is the maladministration at its most chaotic.
Like this:
Hope the people of NC punish them in 2020.
“Troublingly vague” is an interesting euphemism for “f***ing evil.”
I watched Rachel Maddow last night and saw the clip of the guy not answering questions because of the law suit. It was interesting that Graham stepped in and up. I couldn’t tell if this guy was a political appointee or a regular staffer. My assessment was he would have liked to answer the questions but his boss was holding his wife and kids hostage.
