This piece is part of our weekly Prime series on voting rights, but it has been moved outside of the paywall while we cover COVID-19.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1303062
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1303062
" SCOTUS Intervention Adds To The Chaos Of Wisconsin’s COVID-19 Afflicted Election"
Those who weren’t sure about the Supreme Court this decision takes away all questions.
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The GOPSCOTUS hard at work…
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May be with tracking we will have an actual number of deceased caused by Chief Justice John Roberts and the other GOP hacks on the Supreme Court.
But this is just what happens when ideology meets a hard world reality.
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This is an opinion piece from NYT which I hope you can access. It’s not fair and balanced and trying to please all sides. It’s telling it like it is about fatso’s intentions. A highly gerrymandered state, a Democratic governor being regularly overruled and/or ignored by the R legislature and rightist supreme court.
What’s true of Republicans in Wisconsin is true of Republicans nationwide. There is no part of the Republican Party — not its president in the White House, not its leadership in Congress, not its conservative allies on the Supreme Court, not its interest groups or its affiliated media — that has an interest in or commitment to a fair, equal and expansive democracy.
Just look at the last decade. First, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the conservative, Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court opened the door to unlimited campaign spending by corporations, interest groups and wealthy individuals. Then, in Shelby County v. Holder, it swept away the “preclearance” section of the Voting Rights Act, freeing states to adopt new restrictions on voting and ballot access, an invitation they promptly took up. And most recently, in Rucho v. Common Cause, the conservative majority all but gave its blessing to the extreme partisan gerrymandering seen in Wisconsin and other Republican-led states by declaring the issue “nonjusticiable” by federal courts, meaning that they supposedly can’t do anything about it.
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I’m curious, did the Supremely Corrupt Roberts Court decision include a proviso stating that they had the option of reversing themselves in any similar future case should the fascistgop desire it so?
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But I have it on good authority that John Roberts only calls balls and strikes.
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Just when I thought SF and CA overall were beacons of sanity I read that there are 100 people who were basically not sane.
Located at 2266 Shafter Ave., on a dead-end street near a freeway overpass, the nightclub was also operating without proper permits and did not have the fire sprinklers, alarms and exits required in public buildings, according to a warrant obtained by City Attorney Dennis Herrera. The club was holding its events mostly between 2 and 6 a.m.
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There is no room for a HorseRace anymore.
It’s not “down to the wire”
It’s not BothSides.
There will have to be a 70+% of voters make their voices heard in the 10 or so battleground/swing states that Team Trump has staked out.
Trump is either going to have to be defeated in a landslide OR “squeak-by” using 100 different means of cheating.
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I’m confused by the continued use of the word “ex-felon”. Once a person is convicted of a felony he/she is a felon in the eyes of the state for the rest of life unless specifically given a governors pardon. I know this from a conviction for pot growing almost 40 years ago now. In Alaska you can vote and have long guns for hunting once off parole but no handguns or assault rifles. I would have to get permission to enter Canada if I wanted to drive out of Alaska to the lower 48 because of that conviction on my record so many years ago.
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Couldn’t really access it but on a work around I got some reaction from some tweets some of Mr Bouies followers and the person tied in the hate the GOP has for the post office and its funding reqiurements the GOP put them under,no post office no mail in ballots EVER .
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George Conway laid out an explanation for how the courts hands were tied in the Wisconsin decision and that the fault lies entirely with the GOP controlled legislature of the state for the vote suppression. Not going to try to paraphrase it anymore but his explanation was at WaPo I believe and it really made sense to me.
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Unless there’s a florida-specific definition, I think you are right. It appears that “ex-felon” has from usage come to be shorthand for “felon that has completed their sentence”.
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This is where the election will be won or lost. Traditional “registration” drives like democrats usually do at the supermarkets, and calling on election day is NOT going to get it done.
We need to contact people who were registered before - NOW - and (a) make sure they are registered, and (b) have an absentee ballot requested, then © follow up to make sure it was received (most states you can see who was shipped on), and (d) returned.
The DNC needs to headline this effort, not just in swing states, but every state. Biden can’t do it, and an outside group can’t coordinate in the way that is needed.
The DNC even if you hate it - needs the $$$ to get this done.
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" Wisconsin election officials reported that they had already received back one million of the nearly 1.3 million absentee ballots they had sent out. Clerks sent ballots to all but 12,710 of those who requested them."
ALSO
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Just want to highlight how important is the issue in Florida. If the Republicans lose this case, Trump is sure to lose the 2020 election as the over 1,000,000 new voters swing the start and 27 electoral votes blue.
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I wonder if the GOP might end up suffering from the Streisand Effect here. I don’t know how politically active these reenfranchised people would have been, but by constantly throwing up roadblocks and saying “We don’t want you to vote,” could they be helping to encourage more votes against them than if they had just accepted the amendment and kept quiet?
There’s no guarantee that these felons will be any more politically active than the general populace and some might have been inclined to vote for Republicans, but if the entire party is attacking that right to vote, it could push them to exercise that right to voice their displeasure for being castigated yet again. And all while one party is saying, “Please vote,” and the other is shouting, “Don’t you dare vote!”
The GOP is throwing all their eggs into the “This Amendment must be Blocked” basket, when it might have served them better to just avoid calling attention to it at all.
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I know I am being optimistic, but I think the R attempts to suppress votes CAN start to hurt them more than it helps now. That is to say, their most obvious tactics still do LOTS of work to help Rs. But the further down the “easy fruit” chain they go…the closer to hindering or pissing off THEIR voters they get. At some point, making it harder and harder to vote affects their voters too.
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Upon the request of Republicans, the court’s conservative majority reversed a judge’s order that would have helped election officials deal with the operational challenges of the massive expansion of mail-in voting prompted by the outbreak.
ICYMI:
Accused-Rapist-In-Robe Kavbeernaugh delivered for the RethughniCONS!
Kavanaugh wrote for the majority, “Extending the date by which ballots may be cast by voters — not just received by the municipal clerks but cast by voters — for an additional six days after the scheduled election day fundamentally alters the nature of the election.”
For the RethugniCONS…American lives does NOT matter…all that matters is that they stay in power, profit and ignore the perils of COVID!
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