AAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHH!!! VOTER RIGHTS!!! TEXAS!!! AAAAAGHHH!!!

[dutch508]

Star Member turbinetree (5,942 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141860751

Two right-wing judges reinstate Republican-backed voter suppression law

 

Source: Think Progress

In a stroke of horrible luck for voting rights advocates, a case involving Texas’ voter ID law, which was tossed out in its entirety by a federal trial court last month, was assigned to a three-judge appeals court panel that included two of the most conservative judges in the country. Those two judges, Jerry Smith and Jennifer Elrod, reinstated the Texas law Tuesday evening over the dissent of a third colleague.

In what is almost certainly a coincidence, but a very unfortunate one for liberals, Smith and Elrod have a pattern of being assigned politically charged cases and handing down opinions that largely align with Republican orthodoxy. Smith and Elrod were behind a 2014 decision reinstating a Texas anti-abortion law — that law was eventually struck down by the Supreme Court. And they twice sat on panels halting President Obama’s efforts to allow certain undocumented immigrants to remain in the country unmolested.

Smith and Elrod’s Tuesday order is brief and offers little reasoning on the merits. It is the latest chapter in a long, ongoing lawsuit that still has several more court hearings ahead of it before it is complete.

In 2016, the conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down Texas’ voter ID law, noting its discriminatory impact on voters of color. Although voter ID laws are commonly justified as a measure to combat voter fraud at the polls, such fraud barely exists. Yet, as the Fifth Circuit explained, the law’s impact on minority voters is quite real. As one expert witness testified, “Hispanic registered voters and Black registered voters were respectively 195% and 305% more likely than their Anglo peers to lack” voter ID.”

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/two-right-wing-judges-reinstate-republican-backed-voter-suppression-law-c430aaf4d380/

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......................... much leftist pain...

 

Star Member sharedvalues (2,203 posts)
2. Honestly how can a woman be a Republican today?

How can that judge be a republican woman? It's almost an contradiction in terms.

 

Star Member SoCalNative (2,452 posts)
3. One more reason I feel no sympathy for Texas

or Florida. They deserve what they get.

Another leftist who hates. [I know- redundant]

Star Member not fooled (1,670 posts)
5. This is why

the people who have seized control of this nation are so intent on packing the judiciary with Heriturd ****dation/****deralist Society approved far-right activist judges. That is their ticket to enforcing enactment of their sh*tty agenda.

AND.... the money shot:

Star Member a kennedy (13,617 posts)
6. This is why I need DU for all this freaking information......

Holy crap.........IS THIS LAW YET??? De we have choices......can we do anything??

 

[Undies]

How come it is that the status of those unidentified citizens who manage to function in our society without any legitimate form of ID outweighs my status as a registered voter who wants to make sure my legal vote isn't cancelled-out by some cheating SOB?

And who are these people anyway?  They get no government benefits?  They never travel?  They don't buy liquor or cigarettes?  How do they function?

[67 Rover]

Jerry Smith and Jennifer Elrod need to be added to President Trumps list of Supreme court potentials. 

[SVPete]

Did DU-grade Progs really think they would win this case all the way through the USSC?

[FiddyBeowulf]

Star Member a kennedy (13,617 posts)
6. This is why I need DU for all this freaking information......

Holy crap.........IS THIS LAW YET??? De we have choices......can we do anything??

I dunno...get a damn voter ID maybe?!?!?!?!?!?

[BadCat]

I dunno...get a damn voter ID maybe?!?!?!?!?!?

Once again the self proclaimed "smartest people on the internet" show their stupidity.
The TX law says that you CAN INDEED VOTE WITHOUT AN ID, YOU JUST NEED TO FILL OUT AN AFFIDAVIT.

[Old n Grumpy]

Star Member sharedvalues (2,203 posts)
2. Honestly how can a woman be a Republican today?

How can that judge be a republican woman? It's almost an contradiction in terms.

That is easy to answer, she is not fat, ugly and full of hate.

[DLR Pyro]

so if requiring a voter to provide adequate ID before voting is considered voter suppression, then can the requirement to supply a proper ID before getting on an airplane be considered as traveler suppression?

[hillneck]

Star Member SoCalNative (2,452 posts)
3. One more reason I feel no sympathy for Texas
or Florida. They deserve what they get.

You're a DUmmie even by DUmmie standards.  You are lucky breathing is an involuntary function or you would forget.

[Skul]

Other states can now copy our law.
Just swap out the name of the state.

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

"Star Member SoCalNative (2,452 posts)
3. One more reason I feel no sympathy for Texas

or Florida. They deserve what they get."
As a proud Floridian, let me say  .
What a heartless POS, wishing death on people because they disagree with him on political issues.
If his own state were hit with a devastating natural disaster, I'd mourn it and pray for the people there and do what I could to help, because unlike this DUmmy, I'm a decent human being.

[Old n Grumpy]

Star Member SoCalNative (2,452 posts)
3. One more reason I feel no sympathy for Texas
or Florida. They deserve what they get.

We got President Trump, You got bupkiss.

As a Floridian in the potential path of I rma I hope you die a slow, painful, agonizing death for wishing bad on others. ESAD.

[SVPete]

"Star Member SoCalNative (2,452 posts)
3. One more reason I feel no sympathy for Texas

or Florida. They deserve what they get."
As a proud Floridian, let me say  .
What a heartless POS, wishing death on people because they disagree with him on political issues.
If his own state were hit with a devastating natural disaster, I'd mourn it and pray for the people there and do what I could to help, because unlike this DUmmy, I'm a decent human being.

...
As a Floridian in the potential path of I rma I hope you die a slow, painful, agonizing death for wishing bad on others. ESAD.

It's a stupid and reprehensible thing for SCN to post, since it's pretty likely (s)he lives in the shadow of the San Andreas and other major fault systems there in SoCal.

[Old n Grumpy]

Star Member a kennedy (13,617 posts)
6. This is why I need DU for all this freaking information......

Holy crap.........IS THIS LAW YET??? De we have choices......can we do anything??

Write a letter to president Hitliary, oh wait she lost!!

Hold your breath till they change their mind.

[Charlespg]

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[FiddyBeowulf]

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The white people in the beginning of the video are a perfect example of the soft racism of low expectations. I would say they could be DU members but they were all ambulatory and did not look homeless.