Florida's voter suppression law up now

David Frum with some thoughts on what it means that Fox accepted this “exclusive”. (Thread)

 

Ari is correct, sadly.

 

Even Fox is backing away from having an "exclusive" for a public event like a bill signing. Even they realize how wrong that is

 

Gerald Magliocca has come up with what I think may be a highly novel way of attacking the multiple Republican bills trying to deny voting rights, though John Roberts may just rule otherwise. Article II of the 14th AM

His blurb and link:

The Unconstitutional 2021 Reapportionment

Gerard N. Magliocca

Today the Census Bureau released the long-awaited population data that will be used for the next reapportionment of House seats and electoral votes. As I explained in a 2018 law review article, the reapportionment will be unconstitutional because the statutory calculation method violates Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Will any State Attorney General bring a claim under Section Two challenging the reapportionment? I don't know. But at least one should, especially if his or her state stands to lose House seats.

Balkinization


The language of the 14th, which the USSC has told us for 150 years should never be taken literally because real equality is just unacceptable:

Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.

 

Mississippi really stepped it up

 

The confusion is a feature, not a bug

 

Great stuff

 

Bringing this back up because it was the closest thing I could find on a quick search. When Republicans refer to the fraud of the 2020 election, and especially the Supreme Court wanting to adopt the independent legislature doctrine, they are generally referring to things states did in 2020 during the pandemic to make it easier to vote, like sending mail in ballots, expanding early voting, etc. They claim that those measures were fraudulent. They were really just to make it easier to vote.

So now our Governor has issued guidelines making it easier to vote for those impacted by Hurricane Ian, relaxing standards in exactly the same way that happened in many Democratic states that were called "fraudulent". Lest anyone misunderstand, I completely support what the Governor is doing here. Even though Southwest Florida traditionally goes Republican, he is actually doing the right thing. The same thing happened in the Panhandle last time, which also goes Republican, after Hurricane Michael, I believe, and I supported it then as well. Hopefully any Governor would do the same if it was Dade, Broward Palm Beach

It is absolutely the correct thing to do.

But these are pretty much the same type of measures that Republicans have been calling "fraudulent" without describing exactly what they were referring to, and which the Supreme Court is going to use as a pretext to allow state legislatures to throw elections

DeSantis agreed to set aside state election laws so elections officials in Charlotte, Lee and Sarasota — all of which are Republican strongholds — can consolidate polling places, expand early voting locations and make it easier to send mail-in ballots to voters to an address that is not listed in voting records.

 

Yep. Then it would be "fraud".