Federal Appeals Court Blocks Texas Democrats’ Vote-by-Mail Mandate

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Texas Scorecard by Erin Anderson June 4, 2020

Democrats’ plans to force universal mail-ballot voting based on fear of the coronavirus are put on hold again.

Democrats lost another fight today in their attempt to use the courts and fear of the Chinese coronavirus to undermine state voting laws.

On Thursday, a federal appellate court blocked a lower court’s order siding with the Texas Democrat Party that would have forced the state to allow anyone to vote by mail, a process more vulnerable to fraud and abuse than in-person voting.

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the state’s request for a stay pending appeal of federal District Judge Fred Biery’s ruling, issued May 19, which said any Texas voter who fears contracting the coronavirus while voting in person could claim a “disability” and vote by mail ballot.

The liberal judge’s order is now on hold while the state appeals the case to the 5th Circuit.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/state/federal-appeals-court-blocks-texas-democrats-vote-by-mail-mandate/

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Texas Scorecard by Erin Anderson June 4, 2020

Democrats’ plans to force universal mail-ballot voting based on fear of the coronavirus are put on hold again.

Democrats lost another fight today in their attempt to use the courts and fear of the Chinese coronavirus to undermine state voting laws.

On Thursday, a federal appellate court blocked a lower court’s order siding with the Texas Democrat Party that would have forced the state to allow anyone to vote by mail, a process more vulnerable to fraud and abuse than in-person voting.

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the state’s request for a stay pending appeal of federal District Judge Fred Biery’s ruling, issued May 19, which said any Texas voter who fears contracting the coronavirus while voting in person could claim a “disability” and vote by mail ballot.

The liberal judge’s order is now on hold while the state appeals the case to the 5th Circuit.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/state/federal-appeals-court-blocks-texas-democrats-vote-by-mail-mandate/

If that was what was asked of the court, then no wonder they rejected the Dems' plea.

Anyone includes under-age, citizens of other states or countries, etc.

Why would a court ever grant this request?

[Elderberry]

Anyone, who was eligible to vote in Texas.

In the three-judge panel’s unanimous opinion, Judge Jerry Smith leveled Biery’s ruling:

    “In an order that will be remembered more for audacity than legal reasoning, the district judge intervenes just weeks before an election, entering a sweeping preliminary injunction that requires state officials, inter alia, to distribute mail-in ballots to any eligible voter who wants one.     

    “But because the spread of the Virus has not given ‘unelected federal jud[ges]’ a roving commission to rewrite state election codes, we stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal.”

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Anyone, who was eligible to vote in Texas.

Then this is just bad journalism as it did not reflect the news.