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Post by DanMcQ on Oct 31, 2020 6:35:12 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Oct 31, 2020 6:48:19 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 31, 2020 9:11:17 GMT -5
Federal judges nominated by President Trump have largely ruled against efforts to loosen voting rules in the 2020 campaign amid the coronavirus pandemic and sided with Republicans seeking to enforce restrictions, underscoring Trump’s impact in reshaping the judiciary. An analysis by The Washington Post found that nearly three out of four opinions issued in federal voting-related cases by judges picked by the president were in favor of maintaining limits. That is a sharp contrast with judges nominated by President Barack Obama, whose decisions backed such limits 17 percent of the time. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/31/trump-judges-voting-rights/?arc404=true
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2020 13:38:05 GMT -5
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 31, 2020 13:59:43 GMT -5
They must be terrified they are losing Texas.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 31, 2020 17:07:41 GMT -5
What is this - a return to the 1960s? The only thing missing are batons and German shephards.
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 1, 2020 7:19:47 GMT -5
An acquaintance of mine informed me that "No chance Alamance" has been this way since Reconstruction. The current sheriff (in office since 2002) was reprimanded by the DoJ in 2011, but has been re-elected twice since then, running unopposed both times.
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Post by DanMcQ on Nov 1, 2020 10:07:34 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Nov 1, 2020 14:36:27 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Nov 2, 2020 6:56:53 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Nov 2, 2020 7:34:55 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 2, 2020 11:04:08 GMT -5
Kudos to Ben Ginsberg.
Prominent Republicans have joined Democrats and voting rights groups to oppose a GOP lawsuit attacking “drive-through” voting in Harris County, home of the country’s fourth-largest city of Houston.
In a brief submitted Sunday night, Ben Ginsberg, one of the nation’s most powerful election lawyers whose former law firm has represented the Trump 2020 campaign, urged U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen to ignore a bid from Texas Republicans to throw out more than 120,000 ballots cast by voters from their cars. He was joined by Joe Straus, the former longtime Republican speaker of the House for the Texas Legislature.
In a remarkable rebuke of members of their own party, Ginsberg and Straus, through their attorney, accused the plaintiffs in the lawsuit of a “last-minute attempt to disenfranchise thousands of voters.”
The plaintiffs, who include a Houston-area conservative activist along with Republican candidates for Congress and the Texas House, argue that Harris County has flouted Texas law and the U.S. Constitution by opening 10 “drive-through” voting locations. The county, along with Straus and Ginsberg, contend that the locations are necessary to protect public health amid the coronavirus pandemic and are clearly allowed by Texas law.
“It is hard to imagine a scenario more damaging to the public’s confidence in a fair election than a last-minute order from a federal judge throwing out the votes of over 100,000 voters for no reason other than that those voters relied on a state election official’s reasonable interpretation of a state election statute,” Straus and Ginsberg’s attorney wrote.
The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political action committee formed by well-known Republican strategists, also filed a brief Sunday night opposing the plaintiff’s position. The group argued that Republican voters, who tend to be older and more susceptible to the deadly virus, would also be disenfranchised if drive-through voting were not allowed.
Hanen, who was appointed to the federal bench by former president George W. Bush, will hear arguments in the case Monday morning. -- The Washington Post, 11/2/20, 10:51 am
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Post by prhoya on Nov 2, 2020 13:20:39 GMT -5
Kudos to Ben Ginsberg. Prominent Republicans have joined Democrats and voting rights groups to oppose a GOP lawsuit attacking “drive-through” voting in Harris County, home of the country’s fourth-largest city of Houston. In a brief submitted Sunday night, Ben Ginsberg, one of the nation’s most powerful election lawyers whose former law firm has represented the Trump 2020 campaign, urged U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen to ignore a bid from Texas Republicans to throw out more than 120,000 ballots cast by voters from their cars. He was joined by Joe Straus, the former longtime Republican speaker of the House for the Texas Legislature. In a remarkable rebuke of members of their own party, Ginsberg and Straus, through their attorney, accused the plaintiffs in the lawsuit of a “last-minute attempt to disenfranchise thousands of voters.” The plaintiffs, who include a Houston-area conservative activist along with Republican candidates for Congress and the Texas House, argue that Harris County has flouted Texas law and the U.S. Constitution by opening 10 “drive-through” voting locations. The county, along with Straus and Ginsberg, contend that the locations are necessary to protect public health amid the coronavirus pandemic and are clearly allowed by Texas law. “It is hard to imagine a scenario more damaging to the public’s confidence in a fair election than a last-minute order from a federal judge throwing out the votes of over 100,000 voters for no reason other than that those voters relied on a state election official’s reasonable interpretation of a state election statute,” Straus and Ginsberg’s attorney wrote. The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political action committee formed by well-known Republican strategists, also filed a brief Sunday night opposing the plaintiff’s position. The group argued that Republican voters, who tend to be older and more susceptible to the deadly virus, would also be disenfranchised if drive-through voting were not allowed. Hanen, who was appointed to the federal bench by former president George W. Bush, will hear arguments in the case Monday morning. -- The Washington Post, 11/2/20, 10:51 am Amicus brief:
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 2, 2020 15:59:48 GMT -5
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