[meadsjn]

Mesta, can you tell if this is a real court decision?

GREENAWAY, JR., Circuit Judge.
In 1982, the Republican National Committee (“RNC”) and the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”) entered into a consent decree (the “Decree” or “Consent Decree”), which is national in scope, limiting the RNC’s ability to engage or assist in voter fraud prevention unless the RNC obtains the court’s approval in advance." [follow the link]

[MestaMachine]

It’s sure a long bunch of stuff that LOOKS legit, but I don’t see any signatures or seals to prove it. It isn’t signed by a judge. It isn’t notarized. There may be a judgement on file that does have them, but this isn’t it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

An interesting snippet from that paper:

As the District Court correctly points out, the Decree only requires preclearance for programs involving the prevention of in-person voter fraud. Furthermore, the District Court has never prevented the RNC from implementing a voter fraud prevention program that the RNC has submitted for preclearance, at least in part, because the RNC has never submitted any voter fraud prevention program for preclearance.

At worst, the decree requires pre-clearance. But never in the history of the decree has the RNC ever submitted a voter fraud program to get clearance.

So the argument that the decree prevents the RNC from doing voter fraud seems to be incorrect; the decree has never prevented the RNC from doing anything, because the court has never rejected any plan the RNC had, because the RNC has never had a plan.

Further, the decree has only been invoked a couple of times, has never prevented a program when it was invoked, and the RNC has argued in those cases that it was not participating in voter fraud.

The reason the RNC doesn't do minority-targeted voter fraud investigation is because doing so hurts the republican party.