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Court rejects Texas redistricting maps (blocks TX voter ID law)[2 title changes at link]
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 8/28/12 | Drew Singer

Posted on 08/28/2012 1:47:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal court ruled on Tuesday that a controversial Texas voter identification law discriminates against black and Hispanic voters, effectively killing the law before it could take effect for the November 6 presidential election.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the ruling. ..

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012electionbias; activistcourts; aliens; blocks; doj; federalcourt; fraud; holder; holderspeople; howtostealanelection; hypocrites; illegals; judicialactivism; papersplease; perry2016; texas; votefraud; voterid; voting
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To: NormsRevenge

The voters wanted a majority GOP legislature in TEXAS. We get one so we get to draw the lines. BUT NOOOO we have that insidious Voting Rights Act that will eventually turn this state blue and in control of Mexico. The RATS know if Texas goes blue it is clear sailing for them.


41 posted on 08/28/2012 2:42:56 PM PDT by lone star annie
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To: MrB

“Texas is one of many southern states that is under the postbellum voter rights act that allows the feds to interfere with their elections.”

Then how do we explain Arizona? Arizona is not a southern state, yet this very day, Holder sent his injustice department minions to the Grand Canyon State in order to monitor Arizona’s primary election. Gotta make sure no one discriminates against those illegals from Mexico when they show up at the polls, I suppose.

As for Texas, I wish Rick Perry would thumb his nose at the hack federal judge and say in a public venue, in front of the cameras, “Go to hell....were are going to ask EVERYONE to show an ID at the polls this November, black, white, hispanic, EVERY race, color and creed. And if the feds don’t like it, tough crap.”


42 posted on 08/28/2012 2:44:27 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (If people don't have to show an ID to vote, why do they have to show one to purchase a firearm?.)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Reuters was apparently reporting a fake but accurate conclusion.


43 posted on 08/28/2012 2:44:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Only Obama put a dog on the roof of his mouth. Dogs are friends, not food.)
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To: Shadow44

There’s always somebody who wants to change the text ~ but that’s not the issue here. It’s simply political by a political judge. This is one of the reasons we have to reduce the size of the federal judiciary. Starve the beast of the bodies it needs to dig into every little matter.


44 posted on 08/28/2012 2:46:07 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Biggirl

Of course they can, at $0.

This is just more horsedoo from holder n nobama.


45 posted on 08/28/2012 2:46:25 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You are right, and in the heavily illegal areas, we should geta few folks to hang around the polling places with Border Patrol caps on. I guess the dimocraps would say we are not allowing illegals to legally vote. Or would they call non-voter intimidation. It is time for war.


46 posted on 08/28/2012 2:47:06 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

When I vote here in East Texas, Mrs Pat always makes me show my photo ID. We were in the same Sunday School class. She knew my parents and grandparents. I still had to go back out to the car and get my license.


47 posted on 08/28/2012 2:52:39 PM PDT by myprecious
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To: Shadow44

As a lifelong resident of Texas, I have always had to present a photo ID (drivers’ license) in order to vote. The very thought that Mexican and other illegals will be able to vote this election without having to provide the same proof I’ve always had to provide makes me madder than I’ve ever been. Maybe it IS time to face the reality that we’re not going to win this thing peacefully.


48 posted on 08/28/2012 2:55:14 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: boop

Outstanding arrest warrants tend to hamper ID acquisition.I am a Texan, and I am really gettin’ tired of this crap.


49 posted on 08/28/2012 2:57:51 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: NormsRevenge

They get welfare and that requires an ID.


50 posted on 08/28/2012 3:00:12 PM PDT by CodeToad (Anticipate their arrival...they won't.)
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To: NormsRevenge

If anyone on the right were to say that there are some minorities that don’t have the sense it takes to figure out how to get a valid ID, they’d be accused of being racist, mean-spirited, etc...

But as soon as someone mentions “Voter ID” the left cries, “You’re just trying to supress the minority vote because you know that some minorities don’t have the wherewithall it takes to figure out how to get an ID.”

We all know the truth, though. The left WANTS voter fraud. They use minorities and are happy to disparage them to make sure they can have voter fraud. And then claim to champion them.


51 posted on 08/28/2012 3:03:51 PM PDT by ThomasNast (2350)
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To: NormsRevenge

Excuse me, but there was nothing in this article about the voter I.D. law. This only affects the redistricting maps.


52 posted on 08/28/2012 3:04:58 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: NormsRevenge

so let me get this right.

First the feds rule over TX.
Now who was the judge and why seeing as the media cannot do their job why did the Feds feel tey had to sue.
Now this ruling is saying it discriminates, so therefore Amtrack , getting booze, cigs, medicare, SS etc discriminates

Also the judges should have asked themselves how does this do this when it is easy to get photo ID but they did not ask this and the only conclusion is that the court did not have any thought to law, common sense or even the constitution , this was activism.

Some say they will not vote this election, well don’t and we get mroe of this crap plus we’ll be getting milions of illegals on the roles to vote, well done to those who will not vote ARF


53 posted on 08/28/2012 3:10:51 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Texas56

SCOTUS ALREADY RULES ON THIS.

This is plain activism by the court,.
If they say it discriminates then Amtrak, medicare , ss ALL FEDERAL DISCRIMINATES, Hlle to see bozo means people are discriminated.

Now did the judges ask why and how they are discriminated, course not.
They knew how they were to rule under order from Holder and his racist henchmen

If we get power the courts need to be swept clean as does the DOJ and Holder needs to be brought up on charges and why th ehell is he still there, if a republican had done this crap all this time from letting panthers go to suiing etc then he would have been pitchforked out


54 posted on 08/28/2012 3:14:46 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Logical me

agreed, the ruling needs otbe ignored and to hell witht he feds and holder and the racist DOJ

Obama has ignored the courts so it is time for F=IN once to get some balls and demand Holder out and ignore this ruling

Discriminates, yes federal welfare, SS ,medicare, Amtrack all must discriminate, hell so does obama then why you have to show ID to get intot he white house , a FED building, to see obama

Ignore this activist ruling , I am so pissed off right now the homostapo, Holder and the DOJ can all F OFF


55 posted on 08/28/2012 3:19:05 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SharpRightTurn; MrB; Texas56
Texas is one of many southern states that is under the post-bellum voter rights act that allows the feds to interfere with their elections.

The other states aren’t.

Extended for an additional 25 years by Jorge Arbusto and a Republican congress.

One really has to wonder at what point Reconstruction will be finished - its only been 147 years since the end of the War of Northern Aggression ended, yet somehow a mere law passed by Congress and signed by a President allow for an entire region of the country to be treated as little better than a colony in terms of self-rule.

I'd like someone to remind me why it is, exactly, that the entire South should remain part of the US? [By the way, I say that as someone who came to Texas from the Northeast less than 12 years ago, and whose ancestors were busy being oppressed by one or another Czar of all the Russias for a couple hundred years during the time we had slavery and about 40 years of Jim Crow here - IOW, I never had any dog in the North vs. South fight, but I am getting increasingly fed up with the conventional view of things as taught up North].

56 posted on 08/28/2012 3:19:09 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Redistricting is not the same as a voter ID law. The voter ID is intact.


57 posted on 08/28/2012 3:23:47 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
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To: a fool in paradise; boop
When Eric Holder came to speak to the NAACP in Houston this summer, the presstitutes had to present TWO forms of government issued ID to enter the room.

Hell, you have to show ID to get into the Demonrat Convention. Oh, and they don't provide child care facilities there, either - so much for following their own demands for the rest of society, the hypocritical bunch of elitist, statist bastards.

58 posted on 08/28/2012 3:24:00 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: Ancesthntr

I would nto lose one wink of sleep if the north east wanted to leave the union, infact I;d have a party so long as they take all their liberal pansy ass , illegals and homosexuals.

They want their liberal utopia then frigging have it.


59 posted on 08/28/2012 3:26:03 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: NormsRevenge

When will the NRA and GOA sue for equal treatment: requiring ID to buy a gun discriminates against blacks and hispanics?


60 posted on 08/28/2012 3:27:10 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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