Last night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2-1, vacated the district court's injunction requiring Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to make efforts to verify voter registration information. The Columbus Dispatch reports:
The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Brunner is not required to provide county elections boards with the names of voters whose personal information does not match state motor-vehicle or federal Social Security records, as ordered Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith of Columbus.
Brunner had sought an emergency order delaying Smith's order, and the appeals court agreed with Brunner that federal law does not require her to provide the names and that the Nov. 4 election is too close for major policy changes.
The panel noted that the process of matching voter information with state and federal records has been in place since 2007, and that the details about mismatches are available to counties on individual voter records, even if not in one list. . . .
Judge Richard Allen Griffin dissented, saying the three-judge panel should not have acted so quickly and that Brunner's "lack of concern for the integrity of the elections process is astounding and deeply disturbing."
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Replace colored with white and what kind of reaction would you get? Catholic?
And I'm not sure what the problem is, as it was a federal court that the appeals struck down. Is the complaint that the appeals court shouldn't have struck down the US District Court's ruling, or this is a correction of it?
Wouldn't it be great to have a sci-fi alternate universe where the situations were reversed and we could grade people over time how principle-consistent they were between the two worlds? Would any of us score much above zero?
"Wouldn't it be great to have a sci-fi alternate universe where the situations were reversed and we could grade people over time how principle-consistent they were between the two worlds? Would any of us score much above zero?"
At least we wouldn't have to worry much about hobgoblins...
I would also not be the least little bit surprised to find that the two majority judges on the panel were Democrat appointees, although I do not know this for a fact.
You also can't be bothered to do the least bit of actual research on the matter.
Senior Judge Myron Bright concurs, UMn BA, UMn JD, LBJ Judge, aged 89
Norman Bates
I guess you thought I was talking about the minor opinion, when I was talking about the nattering here.
Yes, by designation.
J Aldridge -
This was a contention re: a very narrow requirement under 42 USC 15483, the "Help America Vote Act' (HAVA), that the state(s) had to put in place a manner of comparing voter records with Motor Vehicle Department records. Ohio's S of S claimed that she complied with HAVA, and such a system existed. Plaintiffs argued that although the system comparing both data bases existed, there was no real manner of differentiating those records which showed a discrepancy (between voter registration and motor vehicle bureau records).
Marion Moore--appointed by Willy Clinton (and notorious moonbat liberal) [My thanks to The Drill Sergeant for supplying the judges' names]
Research really isn't necessary in cases like this. I started with the thoroughly verified premise that Demmocrat-appointed judges regard the courts as a mechanism for undemocratically imposing their policies and fellow-travelers on the public. I applied it to this case to predict the party affiliations of the judges who violated circuit court procedures to achieve their desired ends. My predictions were correct adding further empirical credence to my initial hypothesis.
I also expect that my other prediction, that an an en banc hearing by the Sixth Circuit will reverse this politically motivated Bright-Moore machination, will be verified in the next few days. Final Score -- Democrat Party: 0; The People of Ohio: 1.
I hope the 6th Circuit reverses this idiocy but I have little confidence that any judge or group of judges can be trusted to pay the slightest attention to the Constitution or any law that limits their power to dictate policy from the bench.