{"id":185565,"date":"2014-10-09T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/09\/wisconsin-and-texas-voter-suppression-laws-blocked\/"},"modified":"2014-10-09T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:44:00","slug":"wisconsin-and-texas-voter-suppression-laws-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/09\/wisconsin-and-texas-voter-suppression-laws-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin and Texas Voter Suppression Laws Blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are only short term injunctions<\/a> though:<\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Wisconsin from enforcing its strict voter identification law in this year’s election.<\/span>

<\/span> 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.<\/span>

<\/span> 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.<\/span>

<\/span> 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.<\/span>

<\/span> 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.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So not surprised that the three most right wing justices decided that keeping the n*****s from voting is more important than preventing chaos in the already started balloting.<\/p>\n

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.<\/span>

<\/span> Texas Atty. Gen. Gregg Abbott said the state would appeal the ruling.<\/span>

<\/span> 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.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Texas, a gun license was acceptable too, but not a college ID, even a college ID issued by a state college.<\/p>\n

Funny that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are only short term injunctions though: 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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,1000,969,972,1020,1084],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-elections","category-evil","category-justice","category-legislation","category-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}