Posted on 10/09/2014 8:51:56 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Wisconsin from enforcing its strict voter identification law in this year's election..
By a 6-3 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal from civil rights lawyers who argued it was too late to put the rule into effect.
Lawyers for the ACLU had noted the state had already sent out thousands of absentee ballots without mentioning the need for voters to return a copy of the photo identification.
It would be "chaos," they said, for the state now to have to decide whether or not to count such ballots because the voters failed to comply with the new law.
Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented. The six justices in the majority did not issue a written opinion to accompany the decision to lift an order by a lower court that would have allowed the law to take effect.
At nearly the same time, a federal judge in Texas struck down that state's new voter ID law on the grounds that it violated the constitutional right to vote and discriminated against racial minorities.
Texas Atty. Gen. Gregg Abbott said the state would appeal the ruling.
The Wisconsin and Texas cases were the two most closely watched tests of new voter rules this year. In both states, the Republican-led legislatures sought to tighten the rules for voting and to require all registered voters who did not have driver's license to obtain a photo ID card at a state motor vehicles office.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Nope, just affirming what Twain said.
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."
Mark Twain -
It would be tough to top the Alito appointment.
Well, as one immigration lawyer put it: "It ain't over till the illegal wins."
RIP...USA! It’s over folks, we the people have given away our freedom without a fight. Any friggin illegal can walk into a polling booth and vote. We have succumbed to a dictatorship. The courts are packed with commie, lib, socialist judges (99% DemocRATS). Don’t ever say elections don’t matter!
In Wisconsin, this basically means the woman running for governor will win, throwing Walker out of office.
The woman is unemployed currently; bought the presidency of a country club; worked at Trek Bicycle doing something for 2 years, but no one knows exactly what the job was - nor can she clearly articulate it; worked for the previous governor for 2 years, then quit for reasons unknown; has been unemployed for the past 7 years; is heir to Trek Bicycle fortune; snow boarded for several years in Europe. That is basically her complete resume.
She will win because she is not Walker. In this state, any one running for office starts with 46 percent of the vote. She only trails Walker by the slimiest of margins now. The usual Dem ballot box stuffing, Minnesota and Illinois voters voting in WI, etc will carry her over to win with out voter ID.
Predictions is that after she wins, she will quit one or two years in, since she has never worked at anything for more than a few years, and perhaps go snow boarding again ...
During her short tenure, WI taxes will skyrocket again, the state will hemorrhage jobs again, taxpayers will once again be forced to fund lavish perks on teachers driving property taxes through the roof again ... That is how much the 46 percent hate Walker.
Back in the 80’s, I would often say “the biggest mistake Reagan ever made was nominating GHWB”.
Oh, Fer Pete’s Sake! INSANITY!
At least Governor Walker has a solid lead as of now. I think this is REALLY going to turn out our base.
I’m so @#$%^&*! P*SSED!
“Texas Atty. Gen. Gregg Abbott said the state would appeal the ruling.”
Our JB Van Hollen had BETTER be doing the same! @#$%^&*!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I swear, if I ever get another dog, I’m going to teach it how to read, then give it a list of Federal judges to bite.
Our JB Van Hollen had BETTER be doing the same! @#$%^&*!
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Interesting events but differing reasons being used in each situation.
The Texas ruling was struck down by the Judge. In Wisconsin the SCOTUS
basically agreed it was too late to implement for this election, thus delayed
but wasn’t struck down.
snip
“That was one of the main arguments that opponents of the law had made — that
it was too late to put this law into effect this year,” Pam tells Morning Edition.
“It had been on hold for two years until in September a federal court ruled
that it could go into effect. But by that time, the state had already sent out
hundreds of absentee ballots that did not include ID instructions. So
election officials were going to have to track down each of those voters and
have them send in a copy of their ID so their votes would count, which was
quite a mess. Now those votes will count.”
end snip
It is the Constitution ... supremacy clause and all.
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You frequently mention you law background. Will you please post a link or two that prescribes what this so-called “supremacy clause” is and how it can override the 10th Amendment? ...Where in the laws of the US does it give Judges the authority to negate legally enacted laws approved by legislatures of States?
Meh. I guess it’s time to get used to saying, ‘Governor Burke.’ *SPIT*
Nah, I’m still confident Scott Walker will win re-election. The left is throwing everything at the wall these days, and so far nothing is sticking, as Walker has a solid lead.
First debate tonight. Pretty sure I can’t stomach it; but Walker will trounce her. In a polite way. :)
I thought this was already a done deal in Texas? (((ping))
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I early voted in the March primary here in TX. There were signs everywhere at the polling place showing that photo ID was required. ....I went to the table and had both DL and voter registration card. The man only took my DL, put info into the computer...which cross-matched to the voter registration data base to get confirmation...and it only took about one minute.
Three of the last four polls have Walker up ranging between a 2% - 5% spread.
Good luck.
Link to polls I mentioned.
On January 26, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Ramos to replace Judge Hayden Head.[3] Well I for one am shocked!
FUBO
Judge appointments by the Democrats are killing us!
In a 147-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos, an appointee of President Barack Obama confirmed to the bench in 2011,
This stupid judge said the gas needed to go get a photo ID was in effect a poll tax. I can't buy beer or spray paint without swiping my DL when the cashiers ring it up.
I’m glad Gregg Abbott is appealing this awful ruling in Texas.
I hope he succeeds.
We give the welfare for everything else. Why not welfare for gas to get an id? And are minorities the only ones that are poor? This judge is criminal.
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