Democrats and Democracy

[Chuck Naill]

I maintain control....LOL!!

LOL is right!

LMAO!!!

ROTFLMAO if that helps @denail I mean @dneal.

[dneal]

I maintain control....LOL!!

LOL is right!

LMAO!!!

ROTFLMAO if that helps @denail I mean @dneal.

Well, you’re back to making zero sense again. Must be the Covid fog from your recent infection - since your vaccines and boosters didn’t actually vaccinate you.

[Chuck Naill]

What's ironic is that you think you make sense. Trump has really had a deleterious effect.

If you get infected, please let the children who have not been able to receive the vaccine have your bed. After all, you've had your time and chosen to be stupid. Give others a chance.

[dneal]

So I'm off your "ignore" list now?

Didn't even last a day. Hypocrite. LOL!!!

[TSherbs]

The recent court cases, by both sides, over gerrymandering are another reason I hate politics. Blecchh.

[manoeuver]

The recent court cases, by both sides, over gerrymandering are another reason I hate politics. Blecchh.

my favorite is how each side decries gerrymandering while doing their damnedest to redraw districts yet again but 'fairly this time.' riiiight.

[TSherbs]

The recent court cases, by both sides, over gerrymandering are another reason I hate politics. Blecchh.

my favorite is how each side decries gerrymandering while doing their damnedest to redraw districts yet again but 'fairly this time.' riiiight.

agreed

tiresome, endless power grabbing

[TSherbs]

Some limitations placed on Florida GOP rules changes around voting.

Reuters.com: Florida judge blocks Republican-backed voting law as discriminatory.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/flo...al-2022-03-31/

[dneal]

The ruling is likely to be appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is widely seen as a more conservative court. Walker was appointed to the bench by Democratic then-President Barack Obama.

Walker also criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for its 2013 decision weakening the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the federal civil rights legislation that protects minority voters from discrimination. That ruling struck down a key provision, known as preclearance, that required certain states with a history of racial discrimination to get federal approval to change voting laws.

As part of his decision, Walker said he would require preclearance for the next 10 years for any new law governing third-party voter registration groups, drop boxes or aid to voters waiting in line.

Good luck with your ruling, Judge Walker.

[Chuck Naill]

Speaking of Florida, https://rescueamerica.com/11-point-plan/ This plan is not democratic. It is the minority forcing the majority to live and behave as they see fit. I listened to a mother say they were selling their home in Texas and moving to Portland before CPS was administrating interviews she would have with her children.

I just place a hold on How the South Won the Civil War , Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

[Chuck Naill]

This week on March 29, Trump requested that Putin, yeah the same one lying to his people and killing Ukrainians, to provide information on Hunter Biden.

[dneal]

Some limitations placed on Florida GOP rules changes around voting.

Reuters.com: Florida judge blocks Republican-backed voting law as discriminatory.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/flo...al-2022-03-31/

TSherbs seems to enjoy posting this sort of thing, but never the follow-ups.

Poor Judge Walker. Another decision overturned.

Appeals court upholds Florida voting restrictions approved by GOP lawmakers

In an extraordinary move, the judge in the 2022 decision, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, ordered the state to get court approval for a decade before it enacts changes in three areas of election law.

But on Thursday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Walker’s 288-page order was based on legal errors and “clearly erroneous” findings of fact. The appeals court sent the case back to the lower court for review.

It also reversed the requirement that Florida needs prior clearance to change parts of voting law. It affirmed Walker’s ruling that a restriction on soliciting voters within 150 feet of a ballot drop box was unconstitutionally vague.

[dneal]

Judge Walker posts another “L”. I think this is 3 times his ridiculous decisions have been overturned.

Federal Court Chides Dem Activists: There’s Nothing Racist About Election Integrity Laws Like Florida’s

A full federal appeals court declined to take up Democrat groups’ challenge of Florida’s 2021 election integrity law on Thursday, marking a major win for Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP-controlled state legislature.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Thursday’s decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals “let stand an April ruling by a three-judge panel of the [court] that sided with the state on major issues in the case.” The 11th Circuit’s April decision effectively overturned a prior ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker — an Obama appointee — who baselessly claimed the law in question discriminated against black voters.

“What are the supposedly racist provisions that the district judge enjoined officials from enforcing?” Chief Judge William Pryor wrote of the court’s Thursday decision. “They are unremarkable, race-neutral policies designed to bolster election security, maintain order at the polls and ensure that voter-registration forms are delivered on time.”

Signed into law in May 2021, SB 90 includes numerous provisions heavily supported by election integrity activists and American voters. According to a DeSantis press release, the statute “strengthens existing voter ID laws, bans ballot harvesting, prohibits unsolicited mass mailing of ballots, increases election transparency, and prohibits private money from administering elections.”

In his March 2022 decision, Walker claimed that Florida lawmakers demonstrated “intent to discriminate against Black voters” and that the statute is “the stark result[] of a political system that, for well over a century, has overrepresented White Floridians and underrepresented Black and Latino Floridians.” The majority of the 11th Circuit’s three-judge panel disagreed, writing in April that Walker’s allegations of “intentional racial discrimination rest on both legal errors and clearly erroneous findings of fact.”

“Under our precedent, this history cannot support a finding of discriminatory intent in this case. Florida’s more recent history does not support a finding of discriminatory intent,” Pryor wrote.

[Chuck Naill]

Word salad

[dneal]

Yes it was, which is why Judge Walker’s decisions keep getting overturned.