Federal Judge Upholds Ohio's Voter Purge Again
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Julie Carr Smyth
October 10, 2018 2:51 pm
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge rejected a voting rights group’s latest arguments Wednesday that voters were illegally purged from Ohio’s voting rolls.
U.S. District Judge George C. Smith largely sided with the state’s arguments defending confirmation notices sent to voters that set off a removal process tied to failure to participate in the election process, in another blow to the A. Phillip Randolph Institute.
The institute’s broader argument that Ohio’s election administration process was unconstitutional lost in the U.S. Supreme Court in June, but the group continued to contest the legality of the notices.
Acknowledging the effort may have been “an end run around the Supreme Court’s decision and a final attempt to have the previously removed voters reinstated,” the court allowed arguments to go forward.
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So who appointed this judge.................yep a fucking racist piece of shit by the name of Ronald Reagan...............who went around and brought forth the libertarian bull shit .............................
Hey Husted do you remember what the supreme court did in Shelby vs Holder....................your an asshole, and the supreme court of right wing Federalist Society POS don't care about the Constitution, or voting..................so go fuck yourself
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough......................vote
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Grassley, who chairs that Committee, has made it a point to pretty much torpedo what is known as the "Blue Slip" process, although the defacto "rule" wasn't really formally revoked, but has been essentially ignored by the GOP once they took control again, as they go ranting and raving and trashing the entire Senate deliberative process.
What that means is that traditionally, the chair of the Judiciary would abide by ("courtesy" ) the wishes of the Senators from states that had nominees from their states. I.e., Senators would be asked to return the completed "blue slip" (form letter) that recommends or rejects their approval of that nominee. If the chair received no return of the blue slip, then the nominee would not go forward. If the chair received a rejection blue slip, then the nominee would not go forward. If the chair received blue slip approvals, then the nominee would have a hearing scheduled.
Here is an example (from back when Leahy was Chair of that committee in 2011) -
I literally just heard early this morning that both Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris have banded together to protest the nomination of 3, 9th Circuit Court Justices from California (the request to review of which is normally done by sending them a "blue slip" for each nominee from their state), who they were not consulted about. I.e., Grassley ignored the process and accepted Drumpf's "last minute" nominees (who were not on the originally-submitted list to them and the committee), as Grassley has completely burned down every bridge imaginable when it comes to Senate rules and decorum.
(as a sidenote as I heard on the radio this morning, the 9th circuit has a total of 29 slots due to all the cases it hears, many of them are usually retired justices who serve as backups, etc. The judges are located in various western states including CA (which is the principal state), AK, AZ, NV, OR, WA. I believe ID is also a covered state)
I don't know how many times DUers must be told that when your party is in the "minority" of a chamber of Congress, then you can try to stall and delay as much as possible (which they HAVE DONE with most of Drumpf's nominees but the RW Politico won't tell you that), but in the end the GOP has MORE VOTES than the Democrats and will jam it ALL through eventually and regardless of Democratic "holds" and other delays that are limited.
Did you not see that with Kavanaugh (which would have happened anyway, EVEN if you took Manchin out of the equation)? 
Simple math and Civics 101 just doesn't seem to be something that some DUers "get".
Make sure he never becomes Ohio Lt. governor.
Help Betty Sutton, former D Congresswoman from Ohio, become the next Lt. Governor.
Vote Cordray/Sutton! 
