Posted on 10/14/2014 3:08:10 PM PDT by cotton1706
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated Texas' tough voter ID law for the November election, which the U.S. Justice Department had condemned as the state's latest means of suppressing minority voter turnout.
The ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi, who determined the law unconstitutional and similar to a poll tax designed to dissuade minorities from voting.
The 5th Circuit did not rule on the merits of the law; instead, it determined it's too late to change the rules for the upcoming election. Early voting starts Oct. 20.
The law remains under appeal. For now, the ruling is a key victory for Republican-backed photo ID measures that have swept across the U.S. in recent years. The Texas law, considered the toughest of its kind in the nation, requires that an estimated 13.6 million registered Texas voters will need one of seven kinds of photo identification to cast a ballot.
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Judge Nelva can go to Helva. She put her ethnic identity before the law and hopefully the Federal Courts will continue to kick her “Latina” ass back to Mexico or wherever she or her ancestors came from.
A judge is supposed to be an impartial arbiter and finder of facts. If she can’t be that, then she has no business being on the court.
And I would say that about anyone who uses their religion, ethnic background, race, etc. as a criteria for determining the facts and the law.
Nelva deliberately interjected her background into the case and got her ass kicked, but not hard enough. Maybe next year.
You have to show "ONE" form of ID out of several....
600,000 people of black or brown skin color cannot produce "ONE" single id card?
Where's that Jennifer Lawrence "whatever" gif ?
The left has yet to bring out a SINGLE person who doe not have an ID to make him/her eligible to vote.
We know people who work have IDs so no problem there.
So we are left with those who do not work. Of those, there are 2 possible sets of people: receiving benefits of some kind or not. To receive benefits of any kind you need ID so no problem there.
We are left with: people who do not work and have NEVER gotten benefits. How many people fit into that profile?
Answer: none.
.. now let them enforce it.
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Re the “600,000 black and Hispanic voters who lack eligible ID”. I WANT THEIR NAMES AND ADDRESSES.
Sort of like Palestinian/Hamas/Fatah propaganda that 2,100 Palestinians were killed in the recent war with Israel, the majority of them being “civilians”. I WANT THEIR NAMES AND PHOTOS.
Don’t believe the hype, esp. from the Left.
“600,000”. I wonder how many are on welfare, have EBT cards, get Social Security checks, free cheese, and MTV. They have got to have some kind of social services card (presumably with a photograph on it) in order to get these services (deserved or undeserved).
How do many cash their checks? At Tippy’s Taco Bank and Carry-Out?
Makes no sense, but then Holder’s corrupt DOJ makes no sense either (there are some sections which are honest and do their jobs without bias, but the Civil Rights Division ain’t one of them. Neither is their Voter Registration section).
I’d like an answer to that one myself.
Dunno if the legal protocol allows it, but maybe WI and the other 3 or 4 states recently stomped under the boot of judicial fascism oughta hotfoot it down to N’Orleans ? !
Democrats expect to be paid to vote, not the other way around. Even if the picture ID is free as it is in many states, Democrats expect someone else to get it for them. Any old picture will do.
Don’t count on it. The U.S. Supreme Court will likely block it before the election.
Good!
But the Communists will just appeal to the sympathetic USSC, which will block Democracy, Obama-style.
Unfortunately, the Wisconsin law was halted by the US Supreme Court.
Then Gov. Perry should just say too late, we are enforcing the law to avoid confusion.
Cite me later.
Like Andy Jackson, a Democrat said of another Supreme Court judge—he’s made his ruling, now let him enforce it.
“Just read that Supreme Court has put a hold on this order. Holder is going to the mat on this one.”
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Can you post a link to your “source” where you read this?
I’ll bet HOYA is thinking about the Wisconsin case.
d:^(
Not if the RINOs get their immigration bill.
That was my thinking also.
Someone needs to post the pic of the little boy so he can flip off Judge Ramos!!
The 5th Circuit did not rule on the merits of the law; instead, it determined it’s too late to change the rules for the upcoming election. Early voting starts Oct. 20.
So let me see...In other words the basic decision by the lower (Radical) Judge is still in effect. The law is still considered un-constituion by the courts effective immediately the day after the election. I take it that the 5th circuit is saving that ruling for later.
I could extrapolate a bunch more from this rather twisted situation as well.
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