The federal government is reportedly planning to sue the state of Georgia over its new voting law, which takes power away from local elections officials and adds new voting restrictions.
The wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine.
(By me. I just made it up.)
the effort was being overseen by DOJ Civil Rights Division leader Kristen Clark and Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta
This is the Garland DOJ that I like to see.
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Because of McConnell ending the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, the lawsuit will fail and all realists including the very fine lawyers bringing the case know it.
This is the hypocrisy or idiocy on the part of Democratic senators refusing to end the filibuster for voting rights legislation.
We need this to happen anywhere the RepubliCons are ramming through legislation at the state level that suppresses and / or denies the vote. Especially now without legislation making it through the U.S. Congress to protect voting rights. GOPers know they simply cannot win on a level playing field even in some “red” states.
I assume the Garland DoJ has been getting its ducks in a row.
And now,
I’ve often suspected you of being Sextus Empiricus. (That’s what all the girls say?)
It will be interesting to see how they frame this suit after the Supreme Court gutted the VRA. The states regulate the times, places and manner of holding elections and we live in a post-racial society so what constitutional rights or federal laws are being violated by the State of Georgia.
Horseshit.
ETA: Let me be more particular.
You have no goddamned way of knowing how this lawsuit will turn out. You could be happy that the DOJ is on the fucking case, but would rather preemptively declare defeat for some dumb reason that I fail to give the tiniest shit about. Take your Eeyore act and shove it.
Waiting for Garland to cook the duck a l’orange.
Duck is a bit fatty for my personal taste, but that one is a bridge too far!
I hope so. If nothing else, it will provide a lot of media attention.
I was reacting to the preemptive helplessness of the defeatist sentiment, not the merits of the lawsuit, about which we currently know nothing. We’re allowed to be happy the DOJ is suing the MF’ers in the first place instead of simply ignoring it.
Well I do not as a matter of principle gamble, I will accept all bets, because it is no gamble, against my position that the United States Supreme Court will uphold the Georgia law. It is possible the case could delay implementation of the law until after 2022 elections, but I doubt it. It is likely Chief Injustice John Roberts will want this injustice implemented ahead of the 2022 elections.
But the eventual final decision in favor of voter suppression of people of color by our current Republican Supreme Court is beyond doubt.
I mean why the F are we even here, because the Supreme Court has laid out for Republicans how to steal elections through minority rule. I have some hope, but not much, that the Supreme Court might rule against Republican laws at voter nullification, allowing Republican legislatures to determine winners regardless of who got the most votes, but so long as it favors Republicans, even that will more likely than not be okay with the Republican first Supreme Court majority.
Great! Now do the AZ law that permits the legislature to hand an election’s ballots over to any three stooges outfit to conduct “audits”, in contravention of the federal requirement that ballots be maintained unmolested for 18(?) months after any election where a federal position appeared.
I disagree. They have been surprising lately. I don’t intend to stop hoping.
Don’t be daft. The likelihood of the Supreme Court ever touching this lawsuit is infinitesimal.
ETA:
This is why Trump is still president? WTF are you on about?
And then haul them over the state line to a remote “lab”
This is all due to the hypocrisy and idiocy of Chief Justice John Roberts. If it wasn’t for his activist judicial interpretation of reality, Georgia would never have passed their voter suppression law in the first place.