Conservative Appeals Court Rules Texans Have No Right to Vote by Mail
Last edited Thu Jun 4, 2020, 10:51 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: Law & Crime
A federal court on Thursday reversed a decision that expanded vote-by-mail in Texas due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
In a three-judge panel decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a lower courts ruling that mandated Texas election officials provide absentee ballots to any voter who requests one out of fear of contracting the deadly contagion at physical polling locations.
The decision also takes a swipe at the San Antonio-based judge who issued the prior ruling in favor of increased voting access.
In an order that will be remembered more for audacity than legal reasoning, the district judge intervenes just weeks before an election, entering a sweeping preliminary injunction that requires state officials, inter alia, to distribute mail-in ballots to any eligible voter who wants one, the decision caustically notes. But because the spread of the Virus has not given unelected federal jud[ges] a roving commission to rewrite state election codes, we stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/newsworldpolitics/conservative-appeals-court-rules-texans-have-no-right-to-vote-by-mail/ar-BB1538Vw?li=BBnb7Kz
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental.
Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)Always out to fuck the little guy. or Dem in this case.
Polybius
(15,428 posts)Supreme Court?
ancianita
(36,066 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-win-for-texas-gop-officials-federal-appeals-panel-blocks-lower-court-decision-to-allow-any-texan-to-vote-by-mail/2020/06/04/0660adc8-a690-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html
Lonestarblue
(10,011 posts)Some of the most backward judges in the country.
ancianita
(36,066 posts)A SCOTUS appeal might seem better, but it's not, really. In Article I Section 4, the Constitution says: The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations. THAT we vote is in the Constitution, but the rest is up to the states.
And this year? Forget Congress.
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)Essentially, this is GOP judges suppressing the vote by killing off voters.
Fuck Republicans. They should only contract chronic skin diseases!
lastlib
(23,244 posts)I'm guessing that plaintiffs will appeal further.