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Federal judge strikes down part of Ohio ban on foreign nationals donating to ballot issue campaigns
WYSO ^ | 9/01/24 | Karen Kasler

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wyso.org ...


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1 posted on 09/02/2024 1:59:33 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Feral judge strikes down part of Ohio ban on foreign nationals donating to ballot issue campaigns


2 posted on 09/02/2024 2:07:05 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Libloather

Election integrity? Meh!


3 posted on 09/02/2024 2:09:17 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Libloather

So foreign nationals have the right to change zoning laws and alter the property rights of the “FEDERAL JUDGE.”


4 posted on 09/02/2024 2:09:45 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: PIF

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?


5 posted on 09/02/2024 2:15:25 PM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: PIF

Anyone have a picture?


6 posted on 09/02/2024 2:32:51 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Dubya judge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_H._Watson


7 posted on 09/02/2024 2:36:27 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Libloather

Friggin American hating “jughead” POS.


8 posted on 09/02/2024 2:38:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is freeloader "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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To: 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."

What Constitutional rights do non-citizen foreign nationals have?
9 posted on 09/02/2024 2:47:15 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: clearcarbon

All of them.


10 posted on 09/02/2024 2:49:28 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Libloather

Only those who can vote for a candidate or issue should be permitted to donate to the campaign.


11 posted on 09/02/2024 2:53:06 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: kiryandil

WEIRD LOOKING!


12 posted on 09/02/2024 2:53:40 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Libloather

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.


13 posted on 09/02/2024 3:08:13 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Time for pitchforks and torches in front of this F*cking Traitor’s Court. Needs tossed out of Ohio.


14 posted on 09/02/2024 3:09:41 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: OHPatriot

Why has the judicial branch attracted so many apparently confused and integrity-questionable individuals?


15 posted on 09/02/2024 3:41:27 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Libloather

Since when do foreigners have our constitutional rights?


16 posted on 09/02/2024 4:04:50 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Libloather

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.


17 posted on 09/02/2024 4:35:40 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Adder

Since the beginning, provided they are in country.


18 posted on 09/02/2024 4:43:55 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: PIF

Judge Michael Watson was a George Bush appointee. The Bush family strikes again!


19 posted on 09/02/2024 5:27:25 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Adder

They don’t. But the courts are all corrupt. The democrats have worked for years to corrupt them.


20 posted on 09/02/2024 6:26:11 PM PDT by Revel
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