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Surpreme Court Strikes Down AZ Voter Law
Surpreme Court ^ | 6/17/13

Posted on 06/17/2013 7:30:44 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55

Sup Ct strikes down AZ law requiring proof of US citizenship for those seeking to vote in fed election. 7-2

(Excerpt) Read more at supremecourt.gov ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; mobrule; scotus; voting
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To: morphing libertarian
Business interests have DONATED huge sums to make sure their cheap labor sources are NOT impeded from re-supply of their needs. THAT is what had the Amnesty push behind it (follow the money).

Secondly, HANDOUTS would be used to assure those same business interests who would use the cheap labor would have NO TAX IMPLICATIONS, NO WITHOLDING OR FISA, and that "Benefits" would be bestowed from Taxpayer funding of Welfare, EITC, EBT's, Public Housing, etc.

Basically; businesses get cheap labor by payoffs to politicians, and the Taxpayer funds their eductation, medical, housing, and walkin' around money.

201 posted on 06/17/2013 10:00:24 AM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: NonValueAdded
Looks like a highly techincal decision without addressing the underlying issue.

Yes, a lot of freaking out here. This doesn't prevent the state from requiring IDs at the polls.

202 posted on 06/17/2013 10:00:34 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: GraceG

One hell of a rifle that can take out a drone at 28,500 feet eight miles out. I want one.


203 posted on 06/17/2013 10:01:54 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: ConservativeMan55
this is really stupid.
204 posted on 06/17/2013 10:01:59 AM PDT by Drawn7979
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Thanks for the pings.

Most everyone agrees this is a bad opinion - another failure of the Court to recognise and stipulate that the USA is a Republic and not a democracy.

“All politics is local!” is true, as is all elections are local - only DC and the various protectorates (Puerto Rico, USVI, etc.) have strictly Federal votes for non-voting Representatives.

Sad that Justice Thomas did not reveal that in his dissent, but he masterfully eviscerated the major opinion.


205 posted on 06/17/2013 10:02:55 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: mandaladon

There is a solution to this scotus ruling: the state can require citizenship for those voting in state elections, so separate the federal ballot from the state ballot, and require every voter voting on a state ballot to be a US citizen and prove residency in AZ. Wonder how many cheat voters would show up to vote just in federal ballots?


206 posted on 06/17/2013 10:04:42 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Ray76

Not to trivialize the issue Thomas and Alito raise, but it is transitory. Let AZ propose the modification, attempt to file it and then ask for judicial relief because there is no body to accept it.


207 posted on 06/17/2013 10:05:15 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Oh..for cryin’ outloud and with the Immigration (ha) bill..yeesh.


208 posted on 06/17/2013 10:08:06 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Will Freepr combat)
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To: NonValueAdded

Read Thomas’ dissent.


209 posted on 06/17/2013 10:09:08 AM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: Ray76

If you have a link to the dissent(s), I would like to read. Thanks,


210 posted on 06/17/2013 10:18:28 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Insane

How would that law be unconstitutional? Under what brain fart?


211 posted on 06/17/2013 10:22:57 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Fishtalk

With friends like you, who needs...;>


212 posted on 06/17/2013 10:24:04 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Mr. President, can you hear a special prosecutor now?)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Majority Opinion, Thomas’ dissent, Alito’s dissent

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-71_7l48.pdf


213 posted on 06/17/2013 10:25:01 AM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: ConservativeMan55; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; ...
Something Besides the Immigration Bill Ping!

Click the keyword Aliens to see more illegal alien, border security, and other related threads.

214 posted on 06/17/2013 10:25:20 AM PDT by HiJinx (Just kill the bill, already...)
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To: Ray76

I would be inclined to join in with Thomas and Alito but I don’t know the dynamics of their deliberation and whether or not that was to be the losing play. My point is that this decision is not an outright rejection of the proof concept nor the calamity that most of the posters think it is.


215 posted on 06/17/2013 10:25:41 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: ConservativeMan55

For what it’s worth, the law was not struck down because of a Constitutional argument. It was because of the federal law.

The USSC is putting it on Congress to fix the damnthing.


216 posted on 06/17/2013 10:29:22 AM PDT by E Rocc (November 2, 2010: The beginning of the end of the kleptocracy.)
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To: NonValueAdded

“...whether or not that was to be the losing play”

Please explain.


217 posted on 06/17/2013 10:31:16 AM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: ConservativeMan55
TOTALLY correct ruling. Scalia et al adhered to the Constitution. Congress set up regulations, Arizona superceded them. SCOTUS invalidated Arizona. QED.

Article I, Section IV:

1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

If we want the rules changed, CONGRESS will have to modify the existing regulations - NOT individual States ...

218 posted on 06/17/2013 10:31:17 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Perdogg
People see the headline without reading the decision.

The powers that be depend upon that. I'll be reading through it tonight.

219 posted on 06/17/2013 10:31:23 AM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Agreed. Seems it was a similar type of decision in Bush v. Gore that intervened in a State that was openly subverting Federal election law to the benefit of a Democratic candidate. AZ can rememdy this and still have a voter ID law in place.


220 posted on 06/17/2013 10:32:18 AM PDT by CityCenter (Pleading the 5th is just so 1972.)
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