Posted on 04/10/2017 8:16:39 PM PDT by Innovative
Dealing Texas another rebuke over voting rights, a judge Monday again ruled that Republican lawmakers purposefully designed a strict voter ID law to disadvantage minorities and effectively dampen their growing electoral power.
The latest ruling by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of Corpus Christi comes more than two years after she likened Texas’s voter ID rules, known as SB 14, to a “poll tax” meant to suppress minority voters. On Monday, she reaffirmed that conclusion after an appeals court asked her to reexamine her findings.
The Texas law requires voters to show one of seven forms of identification at the ballot box. The list includes concealed-handgun licenses but not college student IDs, and Texas was forced under court order last year to weaken the law for the November elections.
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I wonder how we are doing filling the backlog of Federal judges that are open. I heard there were about 150 openings.
The vote frauders are whining.
That and WAPO reporting it.
She’s an Obama appointee. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
No matter how fast it can’t be fast enough. The vetting of these people has to be of the most thorough nature even small flaws could be decisive.
Socialist judge bent on destruction of america. Par for the course.
The appeals court gave her an opportunity to save face and she refused to take it. I expect their next ruling will not be so kind to her.
Who knew?
Who’da guessed?
Not really sure how having to show ID to vote is discrimination. I think a strong case could be made that not making people show ID when they vote is the actual discrimination......against those people who have the right to legally vote. I can only hope the courts get the is right ....eventually. We sure have a weird country.....not sure how common sense has come under such a successful assault these last few decades.
Voter ID discriminates against wetbacks and that is unfair.
It’s lowered expectations again. That’s how Libs oppress minorities. They’ve created a plantation for them.
Of course it’s offensive to suggest that minorities are so stupid and helpless they cannot possibly be expected to get themselves a legitimate form identification. Which you need to board a plane, join a gym, cash a check, get a drivers license, get a job, pretty much anything.
But liberals don’t dare tell minorities they can do these things, they must be kept in a state of perpetual childhood so the Democrat overlords can keep them under their control.
“I wonder how we are doing filling the backlog of Federal judges that are open. I heard there were about 150 openings.”
The Dems, of course, are using the rules to slow-roll the confirmations. I think that the McConnell, when he kicked-butt (hard to even write that) regarding the filibuster, also lowered the amount of stalling time that the Dems will have available for future nominees.
I was stationed in Corpus in the early 70s. It should have been part of Mexico back then. And it hasn’t changed much. Every economic boon seems to miss that town.
The last administration went after the sovereign citizens in Texas. This one needs to go after the sovereign Ef’ing Mexicans.
There are a lot of minorities in Texas’ Republican delegation in the legislature. They should sue the judge for defamation in state court. The judge not only made a legal ruling but also declared the lawmakers to be racist which is a defamatory statement personally about them - something the judge should have to prove in court in his personal capacity - and it should be filed exclusively with the minority lawmakers as the plaintiffs who supported the legislation to illustrate the point. It of course may go nowhere and would be extraordinary, but the point needs to be made from a PR standpoint.
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