Texas AG wins round in battle over tougher voter signup rules
Source: Bloomberg
Texas won a stay Thursday of a federal court decision that had barred enforcement of the state's toughened voter registration law.
Attorney General Greg Abbott described the development as a victory for voter integrity.
The state had asked the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans to stay an order barring enforcement of several provisions of a 2011 law regulating third-party voter registration activities. The plaintiff was a nonprofit that Abbott said was linked to notorious for voter registration fraud.
U.S. District Judge Gregg Costa of Texas previously ruled the law probably conflicted with federal rules and the Constitution, but the appeals court issued the stay pending appeal in a one-page order.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Texas-AG-wins-round-in-battle-over-tougher-voter-3846125.php
Note: This case is not related to the state's voter ID law, but deals with the registration of voters by third party groups.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)we win in November, we will show these amoral crooks with no conscience that WE DON'T LIKE UGLY!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)D = Drive
R = Reverse
Clear as can be. I'll stick with driving Forward.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Is that English?
What does it mean?
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)In my subjective opinion, Texas is in the "can be turned if the stars align right" category.
Don't ask me why, it's just a vibe I feel.
Gabby Hayes
(289 posts)Abbott and the GOP down here may be worried about Ron Paul splitting the Romney vote and giving Obama a surprise win. The national press tried to ignore the fit Paul's Texas delegation threw at the GOP convention, but they are still seething. And we all know how these guys can hold a grudge. There's also got to be a lot of concern over the ugly stick David Dewhurst took to Ted Cruz during the senatorial primary. Dewhurst lost to Cruz in an ill-timed, low-turnout runoff and was going to run as a third party candidate until someone apparently made him an offer he couldn't refuse. We'll see if there is enough perfume in the world for Cruz, because Democratic challenger Paul Sadler is, well, see below for yourselves, Texans. We need to pressure local newspapers and television stations to give equal and fair time to Sadler and make Cruz answer up to the extraordinary charges Dewhurst made against him.
http://votesmart.org/public-statement/707476/texas-democratic-party-convention-speech
P.S. -- The legalization of marijuana is a plank in the Texas Democratic Party's platform.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)and texas has some really big cities, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio
Then you add in the rising population of Hispanics, people who fled there from Katrina, and the influx of people looking for jobs in a bigger city and boom
TEXAS IS BLUE AGAIN
I would love to see that, Texas has always been a Red state strong whole, WHEN it turns blue I think all the repugs heads will explode in unison!
and then we reduce our carbon footprint by 50% LOL