Posted on 09/02/2024 1:59:33 PM PDT by Libloather
Just hours before a law banning foreign nationals from contributing to ballot issue campaigns was set to take effect, a federal judge blocked part of it because it violates their First Amendment rights.
Judge Michael Watson has ruled that the state can’t enforce the law against foreign nationals – including lawful permanent residents, also known as green card holders – who donate to ballot issue campaigns.
Read the ruling here.
Watson wrote that the political spending of lawful permanent residents "does not carry a risk of undue foreign influence", and noted that LPRs can serve in the military.
"It would be absurd to allow (or force) LPRs to fight and die for this country, on the one hand, and to prohibit them from making incidental expenditures for a yard-sign that expresses a view on state or local politics, on the other," Watson wrote. "So, if the U.S. Federal Government trusts LPRs to put U.S. interests first in the military (of all places), how could this Court hold that it does not trust them to promote U.S. interests in their political spending? It cannot."
The lawsuit was filed against Republican Attorney General Dave Yost and the state by OPAWL – Building AAPI Feminist Leadership, a coalition of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and nonbinary Ohioans. They were represented by the Elias Group, which was founded by Democratic lawyer Marc Elias and specializes in election and voting related litigation.
The law passed as House Bill 1 in a special session of the legislature in late spring, which had been called by Gov. Mike DeWine.
The Republican sponsor of House Bill 1 had warned on the floor against including green card holders in the legislation after it was added to the bill, and it led him to vote against it.
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Feral judge strikes down part of Ohio ban on foreign nationals donating to ballot issue campaigns
Election integrity? Meh!
So foreign nationals have the right to change zoning laws and alter the property rights of the “FEDERAL JUDGE.”
Is it also unlawful to deny LPRs the vote? The judge is making it up as he goes. So is the ruling that LPRs can stick signs on their lawns or that they can contribute to ballot initiatives?
Anyone have a picture?
Friggin American hating “jughead” POS.
All of them.
Only those who can vote for a candidate or issue should be permitted to donate to the campaign.
WEIRD LOOKING!
I certainly hope that Trump wins the election, but honestly folks, the writing is on the wall for this nation. What is happening in Aurora, CO will be a nationwide scourge as long as activist/liberal/communist leaning judges keep handing down rulings like this.
Time for pitchforks and torches in front of this F*cking Traitor’s Court. Needs tossed out of Ohio.
Why has the judicial branch attracted so many apparently confused and integrity-questionable individuals?
Since when do foreigners have our constitutional rights?
Flip the federal judge the finger and ignore his ruling. Keep Enforcing no foreign donations. But left routinely ignores rulings, we might as well do it also.
Since the beginning, provided they are in country.
Judge Michael Watson was a George Bush appointee. The Bush family strikes again!
They don’t. But the courts are all corrupt. The democrats have worked for years to corrupt them.
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