GOP judges lift court order prohibiting Trump campaign from intimidating voters

[KamaAina]

In Ohio, no less.

On Friday, a federal judge in Ohio handed down an order prohibiting the Trump campaign and two of its allies “from conspiring to intimidate, threaten, harass, or coerce voters on Election Day.” That order was effectively blocked on Sunday by a decision handed down by an especially conservative panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

The Friday order listed several activities the Trump campaign could not engage in on election day, including “hindering or delaying a voter or prospective voter from reaching or leaving the polling place fixed for casting the voter’s ballot” and “interrogating, admonishing, interfering with, or verbally harassing voters or prospective voters inside polling places.”...

Judge James S. Gwin, the Clinton appointee who handed down that order, cited “Donald Trump’s comments encouraging rally attendees to monitor ‘certain areas,’ as well as promises from Mr. Trump’s supporters to aggressively patrol polling places” in issuing his order....

The Sixth Circuit panel did not explain its reasoning in its Sunday order staying the ban on voter intimidation by the Trump campaign. Additionally, as voting rights expert Rick Hasen notes, the plaintiffs in this case had not yet filed their brief explaining why a stay should not be granted when the Sixth Circuit decided to hand down this Sunday order anyway. Such a decision, Hasen writes “seems procedurally unfair.”

Got fascism?

[underpants]

1. Blatant

Just flat out blatant voter suppression

[MattP]

2. Roberts picks the 3 court panels hearing the cases

3 republican appointed judges

[tritsofme]

9. Are you sure about that?

As I recall, the panels are picked at random.

[MattP]

11. No im not sure but that panel sucks!

[onenote]

10. No he doesn't. Where did you come up with that idea?

[MattP]

13. I must have got mixed up with the fisa court he appoints

[Foggyhill]

3. Sick sick sick sick sick of this crap. There is no end of that shit, no end.

[workinclasszero]

4. Republicans are anti freedom

They are opposed to democracy.

[babylonsister]

5. Rec'd to shine a light...

and no explanation needed?


"The Sixth Circuit panel did not explain its reasoning in its Sunday order staying the ban on voter intimidation by the Trump campaign. Additionally, as voting rights expert Rick Hasen notes, the plaintiffs in this case had not yet filed their brief explaining why a stay should not be granted when the Sixth Circuit decided to hand down this Sunday order anyway. Such a decision, Hasen writes “seems procedurally unfair.”

[budkin]

6. No one is going to be intimidated by these clowns

If anything it will increase turnout.

[Tess49]

8. I agree. I would put up with that crap for about 1 second. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

7. They interfere with us at their peril

And be sure to take their pictures

[BlueProgressive]

14. So I guess that gives the 'Green Light' to intimidate and harass

Trump voters...

[Hortensis]

15. Blatant corruption of democracy. We are going to see

ongoing attempts to destroy and take over the process from desperate, outnumbered archconservatives in every election until the conservative party reforms in more demographically representative lines. I.e., until they can win fairly honestly. Which is after it stops "reaching OUT" to minority conservatives and instead becomes the ideological home for many of them.

And that's only going to happen when they're forced to, or when minority conservatives finally have enough and take over.

Please, please, please let us get at least a majority in the Senate. The Sixth Circuit has one appellate level vacancy and several lower level.