Florida Scores Huge Win for Free and Fair Elections Over Marc Elias and an Obama JudgeBy streiff
April 27, 2023
On Thursday, a panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals handed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a huge victory over Marc Elias, judicial overreach, and industrial strength stupidity. By a 2-1 decision, with an Obama judge dissenting, the panel upheld nearly all of Florida’s overhaul of voting rules in May 2021. I would call it controversial, but it was only controversial to people whose lives depend upon supporting vote fraud.
Background
In May 2021, the Florida legislature passed a major overhaul of state election law. The law’s goals were to make elections more transparent and trustworthy while outlawing known abuses of the system, particularly those abuses that came into being based on the whim of unelected officials and judges to allegedly allow the system to cope with an election during a pandemic.
These are bullet points that describe what the Florida law does.
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We Can’t Have Clean Elections Because That Would Be RacistBecause all of this is common sense, it must be racist. And almost immediately upon Governor DeSantis signing the bill into law, Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket sued using the Democrat AstroTurf group, League of Women Voters (this is the kind of thing that can convince a feminist that the 19th Amendment was a bad idea) as a plaintiff.
The suit landed before Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida, who was appointed by Barack Obama. So despite Chief Justice John Roberts getting the heebie-jeebies whenever someone comments on who appointed a judge to the bench, that does make a difference.
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Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, in a blistering 288-page decision, said the law placed restrictions on voters that were unconstitutional and discriminated against minority citizens. Those included limits on drop boxes used for mail-in voting, on giving items to voters waiting in line and new requirements placed on voter registration groups.
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Off to a Real CourtGovernor DeSantis immediately appealed to the Eleventh Circuit. The Eleventh Circuit granted Florida an injunction against Walker’s bizarre ruling because an election was imminent. The order granting the injunction ominously noted that “we find the district court’s historical-background analysis to be problematic” and “the district court failed to properly account for what might be called the presumption of legislative good faith.”
Today, that court delivered a death blow to Walker’s delusions of grandeur.
Eleventh Circuit DecisionThe only thing the Eleventh Circuit didn’t do with Walker’s ruling was roll it up and stick it in his eye.
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Source:
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/04/27/florida-scores-huge-win-for-free-and-fair-elections-over-marc-elias-and-an-obama-judge-n737957
