Posted on 10/10/2014 10:45:04 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
AUSTIN, Texas A federal judge likened Texas' strict voter ID requirement to a poll tax deliberately meant to suppress minority voter turnout and struck it down less than a month before Election Day and mere hours after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a similar measure in Wisconsin.
The twin rulings released Thursday evening represent major and somewhat surprising blows to largely Republican-backed voter identification rules sweeping the nation that have generally been upheld in previous rulings.
Approved in 2011, Texas' law is considered among the nation's harshest and had even been derided in court by the Justice Department as blatant discrimination. Wisconsin's law was passed the same year and has remained a similar political flashpoint.
"We are extremely heartened by the court's decision, which affirms our position that the Texas voter identification law unfairly and unnecessarily restricts access to the franchise," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. "We are also pleased that the Supreme Court has refused to allow Wisconsin to implement its own restrictive voter identification law."
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of Corpus Christi on Texas' Gulf Coast, an appointee of President Barack Obama, never signaled during a two-week trial in September that she intended to rule on the Texas law before Election Day. But the timing could spare an estimated 13.6 million registered Texas voters from needing photo identification to cast a ballot.
The Justice Department says more than 600,000 of those voters, mostly blacks and Hispanics, currently lack eligible ID to vote.
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- Impeach Justice Ruth Ginsberg
- Ginsberg has publicly stated that the United States Constitution is lousy and unfair and told other countries it should not be used as model for their constitutions
- I do however like the weekly grilling the Prime Minister of England gets from the Parliament
- Can you imagine Barack Hussein Blow Ebola (junior) having to answer (on TV too) to that?
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- more than 600,000 of them have felony convictions and have done prison time and would therefore be ineligible to vote in election anyhoo
- anyone want to venture a guess of the percentage of male baracks that have been convicted of a major felony?
Which is exactly the point.
Like Murtha, Ginsburg is a liberal/socialist hack I will not shed a tear when they die...
And if Texas ignores this ruling? What?
FUBO! And all you friggin federal judges!
Folks, its OVER. The quaint notion that somehow the GOP and Conservatives are going to retake the Senate via elections is willfully ignorant of the ideology that has taken over.
There WILL NOT BE ANOTHER GOP/CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY in any national capacity within civil means PERIOD.
That means, elections are moot. Cook County went national.
The Normalcy Bias and deliberate willful ignorance of this enemy that has taken over the country is absolutely astounding.
Elections are DONE. OVER. What remains is Kabuki theater, an illusion of choice to placate you.
The Rule of Law is DONE. OVER. Weve seen this now for the last six years - the law can and will be changed at whim and will to suit the needs of the Leftists.
If people continue to hang onto the naive, Pollyanna ideal that our electoral process and institutions are still a means to hold tyranny at bay - then I submit you are LOST to delusion.
Just remember this fact of history - once Marxists have achieved total power in key places, GENOCIDES happen to political enemies of the regime.
Of all the folks I thought would go Surrender Monkey, you were of the very last.
It isn’t important that you know what I do. It’s only important that I know.
This is undoubtedly the OCTOBER SURPRISE.
Get as many voter ID laws overturned so that voter fraud plots can be initiated just in time for the mid-term elections.
This disenfranchisement of voters isn’t fooling anyone.
You cannot survive in this country without an ID. If you don’t have ID, it’s pretty certain you aren’t here legally.
Is it possible to sue judges who refuse to uphold the law, and who work to violate citizen’s rights?
Black robed tyrants continue to commit crimes against States rights. These are criminal acts in clear violation of the. Desperation of powers. Never forget who and what are the enemies.
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- You can impeach US Supreme Court Justices and in states ???
- One I’m[eached and removed barack Florida judge then ran for Congress and was elected to the House of Representatives -
- Some punishment - now like Nancy Pelosi he can vote for or against a bill and use that “Insider Information” to ,make millions like Nancy Paelosi has done - legally
- But you - like Martha Stewart will end up in prison if you do it -
- That is why members of Congress never serve will just 1 or 2 terms and then go home like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson did -
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It’s time for Perry to tell the feds “We decide how our elections are run in Texas. Everyone WILL be required to bring an ID. If Sheila Jackson Lee doesn’t get re-elected because her supporters can’t vote multiple times then tough caca.”
How do they know there are 600,000? Did they check their IDs to make sure they weren’t counted more than once? Oh, wait.
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If I were governor, I would have state and local law enforcement present at every polling site. Ensure poll workers ask for ID and if any federal law enforcement show up, I would have them disarmed and escorted away. If they refuse to comply, they would be detained until the polls close.
lack eligible ID to vote
And just how many lack eligible ID to get public assistance? Buy alcohol/cigarettes?
Andy “By God” Jackson once said, “The Court has made its ruling. Now let them enforce it.”
Texas should just proceed with their law. Eff the Court.
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