Posted on 10/10/2014 4:54:40 PM PDT by Steelfish
Latina Judge Strikes Down TX Voter ID, Blasts History of 'Discrimination'
BY SANDRA LILLEY
A Texas-born and raised Latina federal judge, Nelva Gonzalez Ramos, did not just block a Republican-sponsored state voter ID law, she equated it to laws enacted by states after slavery was abolished to ensure blacks could not vote.
"The Court holds that SB 14 creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African-Americans, and was imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose," Gonzalez Ramos stated in her lengthy ruling issued Thursday. "The Court further holds that SB 14 constitutes an unconstitutional poll tax."
After slaves were freed and black Americans began to win elected office, laws requiring black Americans to pay a fee to vote or to pass literacy tests began to be enacted. Similar tactics were used in the Southwest against Mexican Americans.
Texas' strict voter ID law, passed by the Republican-led Legislature in 2011, only accepts certain forms of photo ID and does not allow other commonly used ones. It does not allow college student photo IDs, for example, but allows gun permits as identification.
The law would have made it extremely difficult for Texas Latinos such as 18-year-old twins Nicole and Victoria Rodriguez to vote, as groups argued in 2013. The young women at the time did not have driver's licenses since their parents could not afford car insurance, yet they had valid Texas birth certificates, high school IDs and Social Security identification.
Still, they would not have been allowed to vote unless they traveled to a state office to get a special photo ID issued by the Department of Public Safety. Voting experts have pointed out the long distances and restricted hours of these state offices,..
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Most of the indigents in question won't be getting on a plane in their lifetimes. Perry failed to go the extra mile - which is provide free transportation to get the voter ID's. Given the fact that all cities have some kind of subsidized public transportation, it shouldn't be a big deal to set aside a driver or two whose part-time job is to get people to state ID offices and back. The objection is that indigent voters are disfranchised because they can't get to state ID offices without spending $50 round-trip. It's a valid one.
Friend of the Castro brothers in San Antonio (they only LOOK bilingual).
I think your idea is interesting. If a person can refuse to participate and can still vote, there goes your control. And privacy being whatever the government declare it to be, good luck forcing someone to participate in this if they don’t want to.
I hate to be Debbie Downer here, but it seems there would be problems. Then again perhaps the Supremes would agree with this. Heaven only know what their collective mind approves of one moment to the next these days.
Push on. See if you can develop some broad interest in it. In theory I have no problem with it. I think it could cut down on multiple votes. That’s a great goal.
impeach the b@$t@rd.
Well, we already have one bimbo like that on the Supreme Court, who has yet to flex her "Latina" identity muscles. When she does things will come to a very hairy head.
I assume this ruling will be appealed, as it is full of juvenile speculation, unsupported opinion, false comparisons and ignorance between the propriety of requiring something and prohibiting something.
LOL, and thanks. I’m not attempting to persuade anyone, so discouragement isn’t possible. Just running it up the flag pole, and I know that the possibilities of generating a discussion or sparking an idea with the people whom make these decisions, well, is unlikely.
And frankly, our country has some overwhelming problems, and we have a President, who acts, as if he is working for the enemy. IMHO.
Greg Abbott needs an emergency appeal to the SCOTUS to reinstate it - just as the ACLU did to get the Wisconsin law tossed
Seems we need to bring Tar and Feathering back into style!
I usually read these, when I can find a copy on line, for what an Irish friend calls the LOLZ.
Yes, the law, even today, if often "a ass."
Our side approaches this wrongly. Candidates should be asked and our commie competition... ‘is it ok, legal, and good for illegal aliens or non-violent or people imitating someone else, to vote whether they are voting republican or democrat?
To your face they will never say yes to this. Then that is what the voter ID is for. NAACP elections require ID as do getting welfare.
“Because Hispanics and African-Americans are too stupid to find legal IDs?:
That’s exactly what I thought. How do they apply for welfare, a bank account, or a doctors visit? democrats dont’ want it becuase it makes it harder for them to commit voter fraud. Says fraud is not that bad (to paraphrase it) Well how do they know for sure?
Excellent point.
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