Thursday, September 6, 2012

Let's have a perp walk!

Maddowblog, links at site.

Last week, a federal judge ordered Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) to leave the state's early-voting window open for all of the state's eligible voters, overturning a Republican law approved last year. Husted's next step should have been, obviously, establishing expanded hours for early voting and setting a statewide schedule.

But Husted had other ideas. On Tuesday, the Republican official, who helps oversee Ohio's elections process, said he intended to ignore the court ruling until after an appeal.

I'm not an attorney, but it's my understanding that federal courts get a little peeved when someone tries to ignore their decisions.
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Unfortunately for the Ohio Secretary of State, however, judges don't much care about defendants' expectations. Economus issued a ruling and he wants Husted to follow it. Decisions from federal courts are not suggestions and they're not optional.

I hope that voter-suppressin' Repug sonofabitch thinks he's more important than a federal judge and fails to appear. Around here, FTA gets you a back seat ride in bracelets. Heh.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I find it interesting that the law-n-order right-wingers seem to think they can simply ignore any law or ruling which gets in the way of whatever it is they want to do, no matter how scummy or underhanded.

Guess they figure there's some "divine right of Republicans," which means laws and rules are for Littlepeople, not for them....

Gordon said...

IOKIYAR still applies.