Posted on 02/27/2019 4:59:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A federal judge is ordering officials in Texas to stop removing people from its voter registration rolls after declaring that the state has not seen widespread voter fraud.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery made the order in a Wednesday ruling, stating that Texas had made a "mess" after the secretary of state's office flagged about 95,000 individuals for a citizenship status review, according to NBC News.
Biery told officials from the 18 counties named as defendants that they could not remove people from the rolls without the court's approval. He also ordered acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley to advise officials in Texas's remaining 254 counties not to remove voters from their rolls without court approval.
“As Robert Fulghum taught in ‘All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,’ always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes,” Biery said.
Biery condemned Whitley's failed attempt to identify ineligible voters, saying in his ruling that state officials' solution was “inherently paved with flawed results.”
"Perfectly legal naturalized Americans were burdened with what the Court finds to be ham-handed and threatening correspondence from the state which did not politely ask for information but rather exemplifies the power of government to strike fear and anxiety and to intimidate the least powerful among us," Biery added.
Biery's ruling comes just over a month after Whitley's office announced that it had identified approximately 95,000 suspected ineligible voters. The office said at the time that 58,000 of those voters had cast a ballot in at least one election since 1996.
The announcement led President Trump to renew his claims about rampant voter fraud in the state.
But the secretary of state's office backtracked on the announcement after discovering that its original list wasn't vetted properly and included U.S. citizens, according to NBC News.
At the beginning of February, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said he did not plan to investigate the 58,000 people flagged by the secretary of state as possible non-citizen voters.
Whitley's office responded to the ruling by thanking the judge for acknowledging that "the list maintenance process was performed in good faith," according to The Associated Press.
Last month's announcement about suspected ineligible voters has thrown Whitley's confirmation into question. The AP noted that every Democratic state senator has come out against his nomination.
Another Damned Black-Robed Judiciarch. Remember his name when it comes time.
Widespread...maybe not. Only takes a controlled precinct or two to make a difference
Tell the Nazi judge to send his divisions to stop Texas.
At best, the leftist judge has four or five chubby US marshals on the verge of retiring to a big, fat retirement.
Find out where the fascist judge lives and “send hither swarms of Officers to harass him, and eat out his substance.”
Can the state’s legislature pass a law that all voters are required to show eligibility, or some such rule?
Just ignore the court. What are they going to do?
it’s not like the law matters anymore anyway.
Why do you need “widespread” voter fraud in order to remove someone from the rolls. If they are on the rolls and don’t belong there, they should be removed whether there is “widespread” voter fraud or not.
Like there’s no emergency at the border! grrrrrrr
If sanctuary states can refuse to obey federal immigration laws, why does Texas have to obey this Democrat judge? Tell him to drop dead.
This!! Just ignore his ruling.
It’s nothing that a pill wouldn’t fix.
No authority to become the executive branch.
Jail, prison for judges who act as legislators or executives from the bench. Judges rule on laws, only. If there is no law, there is no jurisdiction.
I’m shocked, shocked that a Clinton appointed judge would rule this way. /s
Illegal voting has become the linchpin of Democrat power.
Reagan built his revolution with the help of such enemies. In fact, he used to be a Democrat. Some of the Dems out there in the cities are hard-core Stalinists. But most Dems live socially where they are just more comfortable as Dems. That stuff is disturbed and sometimes changed when Democratic politicians or organizers carelessly reveal themselves as fire-breathing traitors and baby-killers.
That, plus seeing living through Reagan's first term is what turned me off the Democratic Party. I believe in removing every obstacle in my personality to making converts. Gentle as doves, wise as serpents is the way to wake them up without getting bitten.
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