Texas Supreme Court upholds drive through voting

[Gothmog]

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[shrike3]

1. Wow! n/t

[OKNancy]

2. As I posted in an earlier thread it's not over

There is still the federal court emergency hearing on Monday in front of an unfriendly judge

[Thekaspervote]

5. How does a federal court over rule a Supreme Court ruling?

[OKNancy]

6. It's the Texas Supreme Court

It’s the Texas Supreme Court. Federal could not rule the same

[Turin_C3PO]

8. This helps.

Voting rights attorneys are in a much better position now. Of course you're right that the judge could still overrule the Texas Supreme Court.

[treestar]

10. Still, they have an even harder case

That the feds have any reason to overrule Texas law as interpreted by the Texas Supreme Court.

[Gothmog]

24. I have read the filing in the federal court

This filing is by a former GOP party chair who was voted out of office a while back and is not a strong filing in my opinion. I know of this attorney only because he used to be the GOP party chair before he was voted out and defeated by an attorney I used to practice law with. This is not a strong filing in my opinion. The equal protection claim basically boils down to the claim that drive through voting is not allowed under Texas election law which is the claim that the Texas supreme court just rejected. Here is the filing https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/10/Harris-county-new-suit.pdf Again, I am not impressed with Jared's attempt to generate a federal question

[Thekaspervote]

3. Oh thank god! To throw out 117,000 ballots would be criminal

[themaguffin]

17. Well 5 people on the Supreme Court might happily do that.

[MaryMagdaline]

4. This is HUGE! great news

[LisaL]

7. It's not over yet.

There is a hearing tomorrow in front of federal judge.

[MaryMagdaline]

11. It's never over but state Supreme Court ruling construing their own law holds great weight

[Hoyt]

9. This is very good news. The federal courts - even SC - seems to be siding with states in most cases.

[Gothmog]

12. Texas Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to throw out nearly 127,000 Harris County votes

This makes me smile https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2020/11/01/texas-supreme-court-rejects-republican-led-effort-to-throw-out-nearly-127000-harris-county-votes/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=ksat12

A legal cloud hanging over nearly 127,000 votes already cast in Harris County was at least temporarily lifted Sunday when the Texas Supreme Court rejected a request by several conservative Republican activists and candidates to preemptively throw out early balloting from drive-thru polling sites in the state's most populous, and largely Democratic, county.

The all-Republican court denied the request without an order or opinion, as justices did last month in a similar lawsuit brought by some of the same plaintiffs.

The Republicans plaintiffs, however, are pursuing a similar lawsuit in federal court, hoping to get the votes thrown out by arguing that drive-thru voting violates the U.S. constitution. A hearing in that case is set for Monday morning in a Houston-based federal district court, one day before Election Day. A rejection of the votes would constitute a monumental disenfranchisement of voters — drive-thru ballots account for about 10% of all in-person ballots cast during early voting in Harris County.

[H2O Man]

14. !!!!!!!!!!

[H2O Man]

13. Recommended.

That's very important.

[Cha]

15. Wow.. Rt!

[bigtree]

16. k&r

[Gothmog]

18. The federal case proceeds

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[Gothmog]

19. This makes me smile

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[Stallion]

20. Is the Federal Court Lawsuit Raising a Unique Federal Question?

Not sure what it could be since equal protection and due process clauses are incorporated into Texas law and Federal Court should abstain from the interpreting settled Texas law as determined by Texas Supreme Court

[Gothmog]

23. I read the filing in the federal court

This filing is by a former GOP party chair who was voted out of office a while back and is not a strong filing in my opinion. I know of this attorney only because he used to be the GOP party chair before he was voted out and defeated by an attorney I used to practice law with. This is not a strong filing in my opinion. The equal protection claim basically boils down to the claim that drive through voting is not allowed under Texas election law which is the claim that the Texas supreme court just rejected. Here is the filing https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/10/Harris-county-new-suit.pdf Again, I am not impressed with Jared's attempt to generate a federal question

[11 Bravo]

21. So now will Amy Coney Island and the crew get a crack at it?

[Gothmog]

22. From the former republican speaker of the Texas house

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[Stallion]

25. Excellent Response from a Republican

of course, this former speaker took a beating from the Qanon/Far Right of his Party

I just heard John Kasich on CNN say essentially the same thing