The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Monday that Ohio officials must rewrite parts of a ballot initiative state Republicans pushed to raise the threshold for passage of citizen-originated ballot proposals to 60 percent from its current simple majority.
Judges who dissented because the decision didn’t go far enough did not pull any punches (IANAL). Good for them!
Frank LaRose is fecal matter.
Leave it to the Rethugs to always move the goalposts in the middle of play. Lucy van Pelt would be very proud
.There’s no end to the awful being awful offal.
Though they’ve given up even pretending that they would let the Dems kick the ball.
If you are a conservative the only way to win an abortion vote is to cheat. Left on their own the people will pass exactly what they want.
Yet another example of Republicans telling voters their ignorance and gullibility is expected and desirable without saying that.
However their fearless leader demonstrates you can get incredibly close to just saying exactly that and the stans are good with it;
NB: need to view the linked video to get the full flavor of Trump’s amused contempt.Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" pic.twitter.com/n1xoeCIL5C
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 11, 2023
“It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.” ― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
Jennifer Brunner would have been a great Chief Justice for Ohio. She originally got her seat on the court when you didn’t have to declare being a D or R. The GOP was incensed by the shift in the court to within one of the majority so they changed the rule requiring D or R and Brunner lost the Chief Justice race to Sharon Kennedy total Repuglican.
His crowd doesn’t care much about tax cuts because they know rethug tax cuts only end up at a $1.50 per pay check for them. Beating up on minorities is what counts for them.
Repub campaign slogan:
“We Take Power From The People”
it could be taken as a good thing - We derive our powewr from the people
or a bad thing - we take away the people’s power.
And I assure you it’s the bad thing that they intend, as always.
“After decades of Republicans’ work to make Ohio a pro-life state, the Left intends to write abortion on demand into Ohio’s constitution,” he wrote. “If they succeed, all the work accomplished by multiple Republican majorities will be undone, and we will return to 19,000+ babies being aborted each and every year.”
That’s right, 100% correct on all counts.
Fecal matter can be composted and become fertilizer.
I’m not sure what would result from composting Frank LaRose, but I’m pretty sure I don’t want it in my garden.
“After decades of Republicans’ work to make Ohio a pro-life state, the Left intends to write abortion on demand into Ohio’s constitution,” he wrote.
The reason for the supermajority requirement:
New polling shows that 59.1% of Ohio registered voters would support a constitutional amendment to make abortion a fundamental right in the state.
Of all likely voters polled, 53% of respondents wanted to protect abortion rights in Ohio, while 39% want the state legislature to restrict abortions, if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court. Nearly six in ten voters (59%) said they personally know a family member or friend who has had an abortion.
If they thought their abortion law was popular, they’d have happily said ‘bring it on’ with the amendment vote. That’s what they did in 2004 when they brought an anti-same sex marriage amendment to the ballot (which passed).
They know it isn’t popular, so they are pulling out all the anti-democratic rules from the book to prevent it.
I need to get some of that God-ass self righteousness. Impervious to all things, including God.
I love how the liberal justice made reference to the General Assembly’s flouting of the Supreme Court’s past rulings on gerrymandering and on the special ability of the wealthy to get their concerns heard by members of that Assembly.
They never even promised to play fair, unlike Lucy.
Toxic waste.
In California, the ballot measures are presented with explanatory material such as “the way things are now” and what the proposed legislation would change. I’m surprised the Ohio court doesn’t see that as the wise and proper way to handle things.
How many milliliters would an Ohio man be expected to bleed out, before a doctor could feel reasonably assured they won’t go to jail for treating him? How many milliliters does Ohio expect a woman suffering an ectopic pregnancy to bleed?
Ohio rightists are too embarrassed to put a number on the woman’s blood loss, and they should be completely embarrassed about their totally wrong beliefs. It’s flat out discrimination on the basis of sex and the rightists are all in favor of it.
