Federal judge blocks effort to invalidate parts of new Georgia voting law ahead of July runoffs

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Source: CNN

A federal court judge on Wednesday denied a motion to stop the implementation of parts of Georgia's new voting law, ahead of state legislature runoff elections next week.

In the ruling, US District Judge J. P. Boulee declined to block parts of SB202, saying the timing of the request presents a problem with runoff elections already ongoing and would change rules for elections that are already underway. The runoffs for two Georgia House seats are set for July 13.

The motion went on to say the filing came three months after SB202 had become law.

"We are at the juncture where all of the challenged provisions are already the law. Therefore, an injunction would not merely preserve the status quo; rather, it would change the law in the ninth inning," wrote Boulee.



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[C_U_L8R]

1. Ninth Inning?

Does this Trump-appointed hack think this is a game?

[Polybius]

2. Trump judge

No shock there.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. fucker

Jean-Paul "JP" Boulee is a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. President Donald Trump (R) nominated Boulee to this court ...

[droidamus2]

4. Typical

Judge punts the question down the road. Since we have elections every two years and special elections between it is almost useless to challenge them if judges are going to take this stance. The whole point of passing laws like this is to first effect the very next election which will, from their point of view, put them in a position to protect those laws going forward. We need to go back to the federal government overseeing changes in state election laws. Here's an idea how about making a rule/law that says if you want to change election laws first it gets some kind of non-partisan review and if it is determined that there could be negative effects on certain groups of voters the law cannot be instituted until at least 2 elections have passed. That way it would cover both mid-term and presidential elections. That way the people of the particular state would have a chance to make their voices heard about whether they want to still support those that passed the new rules. Another idea any voting changes whether positive or negative have to be put on the next ballot to be okayed or not okayed by the people of that state.

[PerceptionManagement]

5. TFG is gone but trumpian cancer grows republican state legislators will never seat another dem again

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. In other words, the action is being filed too soon.

However, it's also being filed too late.

Bizarro world.

[Hoyt]

7. Fortunately, the new law likely will have no impact on the 2 runoffs coming up in July.