Tea Party Threatens Revenge Against Pennsylvania Justices For Not Upholding Voter ID Law
Earlier this week, every single sitting Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice rejected a lower court decision allowing that state’s voter ID law to take effect. Four justices joined a majority opinion requiring the lower court judge to look at the case again due to concerns that voters were unable to obtain the IDs they were supposed to have easy access to as a matter of law, and two more justices joined a dissent arguing that the law should simply be suspended right away. Three of the justices in the majority were Republicans.
Nevertheless, a Tea Party group is now threatening to exact revenge upon the state supreme court for refusing to uphold a law that prevents many low-income, student and minority voters from casting a ballot:
A Philadelphia-area tea party group says it will work to defeat two state Supreme Court justices next year if the state’s new voter identification law isn’t in effect for the Nov. 6 election.
The Independence Hall Tea Party on Thursday also criticized the court’s decision to send a legal challenge to the law back for a lower court review.
It called the decision “a cowardly move” to “punt the ball.”
Chief Justice Ronald Castille, a Republican, and Justice Max Baer, a Democrat, are each finishing a 10-year term in January 2014.
A majority of the voting public thought slavery was okay; that "separate but equal" was okay for education; that misogyny/mixed-race marriage was NOT okay.
No accounting for bigots, and voter-suppression Neanderthals, is there? I guess it's about time that the GOTP figure out that you don't get to put other people's RIGHTS to a popular vote.
A Philadelphia-area tea party group says it will work to defeat two state Supreme Court justices next year if the state’s new voter identification law isn’t in effect for the Nov. 6 election.
The Independence Hall Tea Party on Thursday also criticized the court’s decision to send a legal challenge to the law back for a lower court review.
It called the decision “a cowardly move” to “punt the ball.”
Chief Justice Ronald Castille, a Republican, and Justice Max Baer, a Democrat, are each finishing a 10-year term in January 2014.
Damn the Tea Party is going to work to defeat two Supreme Court justices. How uncivil of them to use the appropriate channels. They don't like the decision, well then I hope they get enough people interested in changing it. What a concept!
bumper sticker - honk if you will pay my mortgage
"The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." attributed to Margaret Thatcher
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government." Thomas Jefferson
Gee, if there were "no issue", then the teabaggers wouldn't be trying to recall the GOP members of the court, who VOTED UNANIMOUSLY, to send the unconstitutional law back to the lower courts... Maybe the 'baggers should just go back under their rocks instead of trying to pass legislation to interfere with citizen's rights. (Particularly, when the State of Pennsylvania ADMITTED IN ITS OWN BRIEFS that there has been ZERO in-person voter-fraud in its ENTIRE HISTORY.)
But even as Democrats require IDs to enter their convention and The Voter Integrity Project discovered there were 30,000 dead North Carolinians still on the state’s voter rolls, Democrats continue to fiercely oppose voter ID laws.
But even as Democrats require IDs to enter their convention and The Voter Integrity Project discovered there were 30,000 dead North Carolinians still on the state’s voter rolls, Democrats continue to fiercely oppose voter ID laws.
And that has WHAT to do with unconstitutional Voter-ID laws in PA?
Oh, and you apparently haven't been following the bullsh*t effort by the : rofllol Voter Integrity Project rofllol . The NC Secretary of State was on the radio the other night...After wasting thousands of unnecessary man-hours following up on the 30,000 names? Interestingly enough, they have found ZERO instances of deceased people's ID's used for voter registration fraud... They were either legitimately on the list as "deceased" to be removed from voter rolls as part of the regular database-purging process; or they were people who legitimately cast an absentee ballot legally, and died in that period of time between casting their vote and the vote-count on election day. Their votes were legal, and were legally counted.
You should find something more intelligent to quote from than "Breitbart.com"..."The Blaze" perhaps? rofllol rofllol
FredHayek wrote: 70% of Americans think photo ID should be required at the polls, but Dems prefer to ignore the people's will.
My goodness you are one particularly disgusting breed of hypocrite. You know that if ALL Americans vote, your party doesn't stand a chance...so you actively fight to suppress the vote of many in the name of eliminating a threat that doesn't exist...THEN you try to turn around and use a statement about the majority of Americans as support for your discrimination.