In a major move, a federal judge expanded Tuesday a previous order he issued against Florida limiting its ability to enforce its so-called “poll tax” ex-felon voting law.
Wisconsin needed a Judge Hinkle or three…
So does SCOTUS.
When would a 5-4 decision from SCOTUS reverse Judge Hinkle?
Remember in November…
Trump’s Criminal Reform is to…
Pardon the White Collar & BFF Criminals who can afford to contribute to his campaign funds, not those who cannot afford the poll tax!
Hold my beer…
-ASSociate “Justice” Kavanaugh
There are so many attempts by Florida’s Republicans to do shite like this. It beggars the imagination.
It’s so weird when you read a story about a judge who actually follows the law and does the right thing. It’s feeling more and more like the exception not the rule, unfortunately. Just another facet of ETTD.
It’s going to take a while to recover from this presidency and clean up the mess. I don’t know if our reputation internationally can be salvaged, but we sure will try.
This decision will not give relief in time for the 2020 election. Each person must establish his or her inability to pay on an individual basis. So what has really occurred here is that the court has enabled 1.5 million Floridians to go to court to prove they cannot pay, and only then can the vote.
Bob, you are right of course. But Wisconsin sure is determined to give them a run for their money! 
Off to the Supreme Court where a 5-4 majority, citing its recent decision in Wisconsin, will support Florida and decree that “Allowing ex-felons the right to vote fundamentally alters the nature of the election.”
So true
I live here and the Republicans spend our Tax Dollars on Lawyers fighting successful ballot initiatives.
Gerrymandering , Legal pot , Felon voting rights
Well they fixed that .
This year passed odious restrictions on Citizen ballot initiatives so that it is almost impossible now to get one on the ballot (after raising the pass to 60%)
Why you can’t have the people making decisions, before you know it Democracy might break out
Life in a Red State
The stupid hurts
From the whipping a dead horse dept:
Kept telling folks this until I was blue in the face in 2016.
Robert Hinkle is a Clinton judge. I don’t understand why articles about federal court decisions don’t mention who appointed the judge(s).
Or “we can’t change the duly implemented election rules during an election year!”
To write “Tuesday’s order is the latest in a series of setbacks for the state” is editorializing. The order is, in fact, a victory for the state, for the constitution, and for the overwhelming majority of Floridians who voted for the enfranchisement of felons who have served their sentences. It is a setback for vote-suppressing Republicans and racists, but I repeat myself.
Which means it is contingent on Democrats to fund & expand the work of the Brennan Center, the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and other groups to ensure every otherwise eligible ex-felon has their franchise restored. Broward, Palm Beach, & Miami-Dade have been streamlining the restoration process so it is not as dire as no ex-felon who is otherwise eligible will not be able to vote in 2020 due to the onerous restoration process. In fact, this is a possibly game changing decision which must become a national issue for the D’s. Florida becomes a tipping point state if hundreds of millions get pumped into ex-felon voting rights rather than into useless television ads.
Is this the other bookend of “The Biden rule, we can’t seat a Supreme Court Justice in an election year.”?
If this order, from this judge, had not prevailed would the next logical step for Dems is to introduce legislation that would bar any FL voter from voting in an election that owed money to the state of FL?
You forgot that McConnell addendum of “unless it benefits the GOP”.
Also, start expecting a series of “Bush v Gore” quality decisions regarding this election coming from the SCOTUS between now and November. If it benefits the GOP, then obviously its constitutional.
The “state” here clearly refers to one of the parties in a lawsuit, the defendants.
I’m going to go out on a limb and posit that this judge is NOT a Trump appointee…thank goodness.