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gabeana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:12 PM
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Justice Stevens is to rule on Ohio ballots, is this good for us?
Edited on Thu Oct-16-08 01:14 PM by gabeana
Stevens to rule on Ohio

The Ohio Secretary of State, a Democrat, asks the Supreme Court to put a hold on a federal court ruling requiring her to pass to country officials disputed lists of names that don't "match" on voter registration rolls.

Justice Stevens makes the next move; SCOTUSblog has the details.

The Ohio motion (.pdf) warns that if the lower court's order "remains in place, mismatches may well be used at the county level unnecessarily to challenge fully qualified voters and severely disrupt the voting process."

(via Ambinder)

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Stevens_to_rule_on_Ohio.html#comments
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:16 PM
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1. Sure beats having Alito, Thomas, Scalia, or Roberts rule on it....
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:24 PM
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2. Great News!!
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:26 PM
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3. Would Joe WurzenhoferWorzenhufer get screwed at the polls? Shudder. nt
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Onlooker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:44 PM
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4. Can't ask for anyone more respectful of the Constitution than Stevens n/t
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petersjo02 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:45 PM
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5. Yes, that is very good news.
He has a great legal mind and, I believe, will see this effort by Repubs in Ohio to refuse eligible voters their right to vote, for what it is: illegal and blatant voter suppression. I look forward to his ruling.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:51 PM
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6. John Paul Stevens is one of the good ones.
One of four.
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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 02:09 PM
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7. Just think if there were five or six
It might turn out be kind of an activist court but at least help cart out the fifty years plus of right-wing leaning crappy precedent
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