Posted on 10/10/2014 7:40:52 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Texas from enforcing voter ID requirements just weeks ahead of the November elections, knocking down a law that the U.S. Justice Department condemned in court as the state’s latest means of suppressing minority turnout.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of Corpus Christi is a defeat for Republican-backed photo ID measures that have swept across the U.S. in recent years and mostly been upheld in court. However, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday night blocked Wisconsin from implementing a law requiring voters to present photo IDs.
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What if the State of Texas simply told this judge to p1$$ off?
I’m sure they’d be kicked out as “lacking standing”,
but someone needs to sue the state with the claim that their vote was cancelled because someone else cast a fraudulent vote.
Just one proven fraudulent vote would do it - that vote cancelled another vote and disenfranchised a legitimate voter.
That’s what I think is going to have to happen with these “federal judges”.
Beware of women with three names.
The hyphen is usually a dead giveaway.
Yes there are going to have to be new law suits about voter integrity. Conservatives may have to Judge shop just as the Democrats do.
The Democrats KNOW..., they cannot win a fair and square election.
If I was Perry I would. It was WAY past time for us to make a stand.
Texas has one of the strictest voter ID laws in the country, and voting rights groups challenged it as discriminatory. Last night, District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos agreed. In a strongly worded opinion, she said the law discriminated against the state's Hispanic and African American voters, because they're less likely to have the required government-issued photo ID, and could have a more difficult time getting one. She said that the law effectively imposed a poll tax because some voters would have to pay to get documents — such as a birth certificate — needed to get a photo ID. Perhaps more importantly, she found that the state enacted the law with the intention of discriminating against voters.
On January 26, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Ramos to replace Judge Hayden Head.
FUBO
Another Leftist Mexican judge, appointed by Obama, heaping the Democrats try to “turn Texas blue.” And by the way, she was supported by TX Sen. John Cornyn, the fraud now running for re-election.
That’s why we are skipping that federal slot on the ballot, and only voting for conservatives running in down-ballot state offices.
We will never vote for a RINO like Cornyn.
Some have brought this up in the discussion, but it needs to be prominent and demand an answer -
why is it always the democRats that support unverified voting?
Lefties - Answer it! Answer it!
Ok. No photoid. Require fingerprints and purple dye. Done.
We need conservative leadership that will not be afraid to play hardball. Can judges be removed/replaced by the next administration? We need a purge at all levels of government.
"During the 111th Congress, Ramos was one of three candidates recommended by Democrats from the Texas House delegation for a Corpus Christi vacancy on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.[4] Ramos was the only candidate also supported by Republican Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn.[3] On January 26, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Ramos to replace Judge Hayden Head.[3]"
KBH and John Cornyn are disgraceful.
I’m not saying this is about “timing” and crooked ‘RAT “judges” but this is all about “timing” and crooked ‘RAT “judges”.
Or we can tar and feather the judges. That would work.
The first conflict of the American Revolution might be said to be the result of the Stamp Act of 1765. In August of 1765, Andrew Oliver, the stamp agent in Boston was hung in effigy from the Liberty Tree and forced to resign his commission.
"What a greater Joy did ever New England see
Than a Stampman hanging on a Tree".Lt. Gov Hutchinson and the sheriff attempted to break up the crowd around midnight only to be driven off by a hail of stones and harsh commentary.
A couple of weeks later a crowd gathered and lit a bonfire on King St in Boston. They then moved on to the house of William Story, a Crown agent in the admiralty court. The crowd swarmed the house, destroying Story's papers and his furnishings as well as Court records held there.
The crowd then moved on to the home of Boston's Controller of Customs, Benjamin Hallowell. They tore down his fence, broke out his windows, stormed the house and stripped it of contents.
The next target of the night was Hutchinson's home. The Lt. Gov. had gotten warning and sent his family to safety. But his eldest daughter had returned and declared she would stay unless Hutchinson also departed. Hutchinson retreated with her to a neighbor's house. The crowd did its work again and left only a shell and a partial roof to greet the dawn.
Thus our ancestors met overreaching government. It was not the last battle but merely a beginning. There followed the Declaratory Act and the Townsend Acts and the Tea Act. Martial law and direct resistance pushed back and forth until "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" and then it was game on.
In many places you need ID to buy spray paint or cold medicine as well.
Or to get into a union meeting.
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