This case is important enough that the liberals should have written at least a brief statement. I know there are various things that factor into these things. But I hold to that.
It was noted that there are imperfect ways for voters to address this. For instance, one article referenced a voter that appears to have been disenfranchised by mistake. She went to the relevant office to address it. She missed a few hours of work. If she lost pay, this is in effect a sort of poll tax.
It is good that VA has some fail safe methods, but people do fall in between the cracks. Unnecessary burdens are unjust. And the unsupported fear mongering of these efforts poison the well.
They're so desperate to hold on to their supermajority they don't even care about the law anymore, only their absolute power to effectively create and completely rewrite laws
With their ability to hide behind the shadow docket when they have no legal basis for their decisions, I fail to see any circumstances under which they won't overturn a Harris win to make Trump dictator-in-chief
Republicans are quite clear and consistent that citizens do not have a 'right' to vote, but that voting is a privilege. I would pay attention to that term, privilege, because when I use it, it's to imply something undeserved, or at least not based in any merit of the one holding it but rather down to fortune. To the extent that Republicans have any governing philosophy, it's all about privilege, and who should have it, and who should not. It's what the country and the constitution were founded on. The wealthy male landowners (and slaveowners) weren't any better than anyone else; they simply took it because they could.
There's a lesson there that has to be learned by the American people. If you ought to have something, you have to find a way to take it. Because the backers of the Trump regime certainly will. It's all about raw power, nothing more, and it seems it never has been.
Why in the hell is nobody with the power to do so not locking up these Traitors who refuse to be nonpartisan and refuse to decide by the Rule of Law?
Right now we have the many times over criminal able to run for our White House despite his threats he plans to carry out against Americans! Where is the justice for We the People?
From what I gather, the bastard has horrible plans for the LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY of which I, at age 78, am a member along with my being a Vietnam Veteran. I already know what he thinks of the Veterans, that filthy scum.
I can't even escape to Canada because I'm monetarily locked into living in California by its extreme cost of living.
Well, I'm begging for help for all American citizens. We don't deserve the violence of Trump's MAGA cult as demanded by that Orange-fleshed freak of nature. Every bit of money earned by government personnel regardless of rank comes from our tax dollars. Their benefits such as housing and food and clothing are also paid for by our tax dollars.
And yet we have people who only answer to Trump grabbing those tax dollars while betraying We the People with Treasonous behavior. I want to know why this shit has been going on openly, how they want to use our tax dollars for what Donald Trump demands while ignoring the real President in the Whitehouse, one of all the buildings our tax dollars pay for the upkeep on.
We've been so busy working and trying to live comfortably that they just all decided, hey, lets grab everything we can while they're distracted.
What we need to do before the hammer drops is round up every goddamn thief who's guilty of stealing our Nation out from under us and put them where they've made us exist, take every cent of salary they've abused and put it back into the deficit and pay for the needs of our Nation while putting everyone to work to fix what the greedy bastards have destroyed because we're no longer able to speak out.
Take away their mansions and cars and private planes and yachts and make the banks take all of it and somehow make the greedy banks figure out how to get their money back so they can approve credit for the poor souls who've been made to live on sidewalks because nobody with money gives a fuck about them.
Give us a government strong enough to make the major thieves rebuild the horrible damages the Authoritarians have created in their countries and ours and make all of them rot in camps so the people can go home to their countries without fear.
The wealthy shits owe the good people whose lives have been destroyed by their greed a planet that has clean air and water and bring an end to hunger by making the greedy ones feed them three square meals a day while the Oligarchs and their bootlickers find out what it's like to go hungry every friggin' day.
Get my drift? I want my America back and I want it to be like the forefathers intended. Replace every Justice who refused to work as intended and let us have a word about how they are chosen because politicians aren't worth a damn when it comes to choosing them.
Thank you for reading. I hope more people will speak up before Donald silences us for good.
This is utterly terrifying. What else are they going to ignore in service to Orange Hitler?
Chris, could Trumpkin (or more likely Miyares) have deliberately chosen Aug. 7 to create a test case to rule that the 90 day window doesn't actually begin until Day 89, in this situation Aug. 8?
I'm completely ignorant of VA "purging" practices, and the obvious question is, are all those voters who are removed from eligible voter lists actually NOTIFIED that they're "purged"? And if NOT, how are they to re-register without that knowledge?
Another question: What happens if they already voted in, say, early voting, as folks are wont to do? Is their vote invalidated after the fact? Are they notified? Or do they get charged with voting illegally?
Separately, how can SCOTUS just ignore an entire provision of United States Code without any actual argument or hearings?
Vigilante, Inc. has been doing the same thing for years. They're none other than the KKK who has been given permission to do this in GA. They may be operating under different names throughout the U.S.
Even though I've voted, I'm checking my status daily to see if I suddenly disappear from being registered since I came to this dreaded State in 2012.
A corrupt SCOTUS decision made to fix a "problem" that is actually not a problem. It's all part the Big Lie.
“The Brennan Center found just 30 suspected noncitizen votes amid 23.5 million votes in 2016, suggesting that suspected noncitizen votes accounted for 0.0001% of votes cast. Trump’s own election integrity commission disbanded without releasing evidence of voter fraud, even though he’d claimed 3 million undocumented immigrants had voted in 2016 costing him the popular vote.”
"A database maintained by right-wing the Heritage Foundation found fewer than 100 examples of non-citizen voting between 2002-2022, amid more than one billion lawfully cast ballots."
It seems that while a Trump presidency would suspend the Constitution, the Roberts court would suspend the rule of law. What’s next? Finding the 14th Amendment *and* Brown v. Board of Education “egregious” and restoring Plessy v. Ferguson?
Your analysis is Spot On, Chris, and these 6 judges scare the Hell Out of me. I'm staying positive that it's going to be a Blowout for Harris, and that there will be no doubt who the winner is. Thank You, and will reStack ASAP 🌊
Why wouldn’t the minority write their own opinion, which would help explain the majority? I bet if they did, the majority would write an opinion. The reasoning, as you summarize it, is ludicrous, but the Court is increasingly unconcerned with its credibility so I’m willing to believe there’s nothing more to the analysis.
The most obvious reason for Youngkin to wait until exactly 90 days before the election to issue his executive order for the purge is to thumb his nose at federal law and signal his political affiliation with election theft for MAGAs. When the SCOTUS doesn't even do us the courtesy of explaining their decisions they may as well have spun a bottle where every outcome blows a kiss to Trump - and for all we know that's what they did. An invisible fig leaf makes it clear they can and have neutered federal law. They may as well be the Supreme Rulers of The U S. because without explanations their legal prestidigitation is tantamount to making law as well as interpreting law.
This case is important enough that the liberals should have written at least a brief statement. I know there are various things that factor into these things. But I hold to that.
It was noted that there are imperfect ways for voters to address this. For instance, one article referenced a voter that appears to have been disenfranchised by mistake. She went to the relevant office to address it. She missed a few hours of work. If she lost pay, this is in effect a sort of poll tax.
It is good that VA has some fail safe methods, but people do fall in between the cracks. Unnecessary burdens are unjust. And the unsupported fear mongering of these efforts poison the well.
They're so desperate to hold on to their supermajority they don't even care about the law anymore, only their absolute power to effectively create and completely rewrite laws
With their ability to hide behind the shadow docket when they have no legal basis for their decisions, I fail to see any circumstances under which they won't overturn a Harris win to make Trump dictator-in-chief
Republicans are quite clear and consistent that citizens do not have a 'right' to vote, but that voting is a privilege. I would pay attention to that term, privilege, because when I use it, it's to imply something undeserved, or at least not based in any merit of the one holding it but rather down to fortune. To the extent that Republicans have any governing philosophy, it's all about privilege, and who should have it, and who should not. It's what the country and the constitution were founded on. The wealthy male landowners (and slaveowners) weren't any better than anyone else; they simply took it because they could.
There's a lesson there that has to be learned by the American people. If you ought to have something, you have to find a way to take it. Because the backers of the Trump regime certainly will. It's all about raw power, nothing more, and it seems it never has been.
Showing their absolute contempt for everything.
Why in the hell is nobody with the power to do so not locking up these Traitors who refuse to be nonpartisan and refuse to decide by the Rule of Law?
Right now we have the many times over criminal able to run for our White House despite his threats he plans to carry out against Americans! Where is the justice for We the People?
From what I gather, the bastard has horrible plans for the LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY of which I, at age 78, am a member along with my being a Vietnam Veteran. I already know what he thinks of the Veterans, that filthy scum.
I can't even escape to Canada because I'm monetarily locked into living in California by its extreme cost of living.
Well, I'm begging for help for all American citizens. We don't deserve the violence of Trump's MAGA cult as demanded by that Orange-fleshed freak of nature. Every bit of money earned by government personnel regardless of rank comes from our tax dollars. Their benefits such as housing and food and clothing are also paid for by our tax dollars.
And yet we have people who only answer to Trump grabbing those tax dollars while betraying We the People with Treasonous behavior. I want to know why this shit has been going on openly, how they want to use our tax dollars for what Donald Trump demands while ignoring the real President in the Whitehouse, one of all the buildings our tax dollars pay for the upkeep on.
We've been so busy working and trying to live comfortably that they just all decided, hey, lets grab everything we can while they're distracted.
What we need to do before the hammer drops is round up every goddamn thief who's guilty of stealing our Nation out from under us and put them where they've made us exist, take every cent of salary they've abused and put it back into the deficit and pay for the needs of our Nation while putting everyone to work to fix what the greedy bastards have destroyed because we're no longer able to speak out.
Take away their mansions and cars and private planes and yachts and make the banks take all of it and somehow make the greedy banks figure out how to get their money back so they can approve credit for the poor souls who've been made to live on sidewalks because nobody with money gives a fuck about them.
Give us a government strong enough to make the major thieves rebuild the horrible damages the Authoritarians have created in their countries and ours and make all of them rot in camps so the people can go home to their countries without fear.
The wealthy shits owe the good people whose lives have been destroyed by their greed a planet that has clean air and water and bring an end to hunger by making the greedy ones feed them three square meals a day while the Oligarchs and their bootlickers find out what it's like to go hungry every friggin' day.
Get my drift? I want my America back and I want it to be like the forefathers intended. Replace every Justice who refused to work as intended and let us have a word about how they are chosen because politicians aren't worth a damn when it comes to choosing them.
Thank you for reading. I hope more people will speak up before Donald silences us for good.
Richard La France
This is utterly terrifying. What else are they going to ignore in service to Orange Hitler?
Chris, could Trumpkin (or more likely Miyares) have deliberately chosen Aug. 7 to create a test case to rule that the 90 day window doesn't actually begin until Day 89, in this situation Aug. 8?
The law still states that such actions are illegal within 90 days of an election involving candidates for federal office.
And apparently the law is irrelevant.
I'm completely ignorant of VA "purging" practices, and the obvious question is, are all those voters who are removed from eligible voter lists actually NOTIFIED that they're "purged"? And if NOT, how are they to re-register without that knowledge?
They are to get a mailing, but, of course, that is an imperfect process.
Yes, especially DeJoy's USPS on the job!
Another question: What happens if they already voted in, say, early voting, as folks are wont to do? Is their vote invalidated after the fact? Are they notified? Or do they get charged with voting illegally?
Separately, how can SCOTUS just ignore an entire provision of United States Code without any actual argument or hearings?
To the second question, there's simply nobody higher to stop them.
Because they can do it...QED.
Vigilante, Inc. has been doing the same thing for years. They're none other than the KKK who has been given permission to do this in GA. They may be operating under different names throughout the U.S.
Even though I've voted, I'm checking my status daily to see if I suddenly disappear from being registered since I came to this dreaded State in 2012.
A corrupt SCOTUS decision made to fix a "problem" that is actually not a problem. It's all part the Big Lie.
“The Brennan Center found just 30 suspected noncitizen votes amid 23.5 million votes in 2016, suggesting that suspected noncitizen votes accounted for 0.0001% of votes cast. Trump’s own election integrity commission disbanded without releasing evidence of voter fraud, even though he’d claimed 3 million undocumented immigrants had voted in 2016 costing him the popular vote.”
"A database maintained by right-wing the Heritage Foundation found fewer than 100 examples of non-citizen voting between 2002-2022, amid more than one billion lawfully cast ballots."
This must be part of the October Surprise! Yup
Tis a signal to the Hair Füror to start suing to get it to SCOTUS
It seems that while a Trump presidency would suspend the Constitution, the Roberts court would suspend the rule of law. What’s next? Finding the 14th Amendment *and* Brown v. Board of Education “egregious” and restoring Plessy v. Ferguson?
Stop giving them ideas.
Your analysis is Spot On, Chris, and these 6 judges scare the Hell Out of me. I'm staying positive that it's going to be a Blowout for Harris, and that there will be no doubt who the winner is. Thank You, and will reStack ASAP 🌊
Why wouldn’t the minority write their own opinion, which would help explain the majority? I bet if they did, the majority would write an opinion. The reasoning, as you summarize it, is ludicrous, but the Court is increasingly unconcerned with its credibility so I’m willing to believe there’s nothing more to the analysis.
"The only way to win is to cheat" - Georgie Porgie.
Absolutely shocking.
We have that already here in Va.
The most obvious reason for Youngkin to wait until exactly 90 days before the election to issue his executive order for the purge is to thumb his nose at federal law and signal his political affiliation with election theft for MAGAs. When the SCOTUS doesn't even do us the courtesy of explaining their decisions they may as well have spun a bottle where every outcome blows a kiss to Trump - and for all we know that's what they did. An invisible fig leaf makes it clear they can and have neutered federal law. They may as well be the Supreme Rulers of The U S. because without explanations their legal prestidigitation is tantamount to making law as well as interpreting law.