Originally published at: Republican Texas Judge Endorses ‘Vote Harvesting’ Conspiracy Amid Primaries - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Last Tuesday, early voting began in the primary elections to choose nominees for Texas’s upcoming U.S. Senate race. One of the Republican candidates for that Senate seat, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, marked the occasion by publishing a “legal advisory” informing…
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The Con’s on the 5th Circus Circuit Court are determined to maintain the 21st Centaury version of poll taxes and literacy tests.
Following the ratification in 1870 of the 15th Amendment, which barred states from depriving citizens the right to vote based on race, southern states began enacting measures such as poll taxes, literacy tests, all-white primaries, felony disenfranchisement laws, grandfather clauses, fraud and intimidation to keep African Americans from the polls.
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My jaundiced suspicion is that “vote harvesting” charges will only be pursued against non-Republicans. And Paxton is a known crook. It speaks very poorly for the Texans (and Tejanos) who keep putting him back in office.
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Figures don’t lie but liars can figure. Edith Jones is just a liar figuring.
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I sometimes cringe when our proprietor Mr. Marshall characterizes entire courts as fundamentally corrupt, but some judges certainly are, and Edith Jones is their poster child. That previous Republican administrations seriously considered her as a Supreme Court nominee shows that the problem predates Trump.
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Ah, the Reagan years. I had always thought Nixon was as low as the GOP could go. Then came the Bush years, and now, the disaster of this “administration.” Thanks, ignorant voters!
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