Can the Supreme Court straighten out America's Goofy-shaped democracy? June 23 2017
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Conservative 'study' on illegal vote is a lie as expected
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Can the Supreme Court straighten out America's Goofy-shaped democracy? June 23 2017
http://www.theage.com.au/world/can-...icas-misshapen-democracy-20170623-gwwxqm.html
Another Trump proponent of voter fraud gets his ass kicked.
The Head Of Trump’s Voter Integrity Probe Just Got Sanctioned For A Lack Of Integrity
A U.S. magistrate judge said Kris Kobach’s “deceptive conduct” merited sanctions.
A federal magistrate judge fined Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) $1,000 on Friday for misrepresenting the content of documents he was photographed holding while meeting with President Donald Trump, but will allow Kobach to continue to shield the documents from the public.
The ruling came in connection with a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union over a Kansas law requiring people to prove their citizenship when they register to vote. As part of the lawsuit, the ACLU sought documents Kobach was photographed holding when he met with Trump in November that contained proposed changes to the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. Kobach argued the documents were not relevant to the lawsuit, but the ACLU argued they were because Kobach’s proposal of amendments to federal voter registration law signaled he did not have the authority to implement a proof of citizenship requirement.
In April, federal magistrate Judge James O’Hara ordered Kobach to turn over the documents, and the ACLU asked O’Hara to sanction Kobach for failing to comply with his discovery obligations. Kobach produced the documents to the court, but marked them as confidential, preventing them from being released to the public.
O’Hara agreed Friday that Kobach’s “deceptive conduct and lack of candor warrant the imposition of sanctions.” But, he said, Kobach’s objections to releasing the documents were “substantially justified.”
Still, O’Hara wrote, Kobach’s behavior merited a fine to discourage him from pursuing similar behavior in the future.
“To deter defense counsel and other members of the bar from deliberately attempting to mislead the court in the future, and to somewhat compensate the court for the ‘costs imposed on the judicial system’ through the undersigned’s time spent discovering defendant’s misrepresentations and bringing the same to light, the court fines defendant $1,000,” he wrote.
Kobach has pushed some of the most restrictive voting and immigration policies in the country in his state and has been tapped by Trump to lead a federal probe into election integrity. He is also running for governor of Kansas.
The ACLU had argued the contents of the documents undermined Kobach’s claim that millions may be illegally registered to vote, but Kobach said the group was trying to obtain them just to annoy him.
O’Hara also said it was appropriate for Kobach to keep the documents from his meeting with Trump private because they were exempt under Kansas’ open records law. The documents are exempt, he said, because they are preliminary proposals.
As part of the sanctions, O’Hara ruled the ACLU could depose Kobach over the documents. He also hinted the court would be hesitant to protect the documents under seal as the litigation continues.
Neither the ACLU nor Kobach’s office immediately responded to a request for comment.
Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a ruling blocking the Kansas law and allowed voters registered at a motor vehicle office whose status had been put into jeopardy by the proof of citizenship requirement to cast a ballot. The decision affected 20,000 people.
Read the judge’s opinion:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...4b05c37bb766e6e?6hq&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
The Head Of Trump’s Voter Integrity Probe Just Got Sanctioned For A Lack Of Integrity
A U.S. magistrate judge said Kris Kobach’s “deceptive conduct” merited sanctions.
A federal magistrate judge fined Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) $1,000 on Friday for misrepresenting the content of documents he was photographed holding while meeting with President Donald Trump, but will allow Kobach to continue to shield the documents from the public.
The ruling came in connection with a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union over a Kansas law requiring people to prove their citizenship when they register to vote. As part of the lawsuit, the ACLU sought documents Kobach was photographed holding when he met with Trump in November that contained proposed changes to the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. Kobach argued the documents were not relevant to the lawsuit, but the ACLU argued they were because Kobach’s proposal of amendments to federal voter registration law signaled he did not have the authority to implement a proof of citizenship requirement.
In April, federal magistrate Judge James O’Hara ordered Kobach to turn over the documents, and the ACLU asked O’Hara to sanction Kobach for failing to comply with his discovery obligations. Kobach produced the documents to the court, but marked them as confidential, preventing them from being released to the public.
O’Hara agreed Friday that Kobach’s “deceptive conduct and lack of candor warrant the imposition of sanctions.” But, he said, Kobach’s objections to releasing the documents were “substantially justified.”
Still, O’Hara wrote, Kobach’s behavior merited a fine to discourage him from pursuing similar behavior in the future.
“To deter defense counsel and other members of the bar from deliberately attempting to mislead the court in the future, and to somewhat compensate the court for the ‘costs imposed on the judicial system’ through the undersigned’s time spent discovering defendant’s misrepresentations and bringing the same to light, the court fines defendant $1,000,” he wrote.
Kobach has pushed some of the most restrictive voting and immigration policies in the country in his state and has been tapped by Trump to lead a federal probe into election integrity. He is also running for governor of Kansas.
The ACLU had argued the contents of the documents undermined Kobach’s claim that millions may be illegally registered to vote, but Kobach said the group was trying to obtain them just to annoy him.
O’Hara also said it was appropriate for Kobach to keep the documents from his meeting with Trump private because they were exempt under Kansas’ open records law. The documents are exempt, he said, because they are preliminary proposals.
As part of the sanctions, O’Hara ruled the ACLU could depose Kobach over the documents. He also hinted the court would be hesitant to protect the documents under seal as the litigation continues.
Neither the ACLU nor Kobach’s office immediately responded to a request for comment.
Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a ruling blocking the Kansas law and allowed voters registered at a motor vehicle office whose status had been put into jeopardy by the proof of citizenship requirement to cast a ballot. The decision affected 20,000 people.
Read the judge’s opinion:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...4b05c37bb766e6e?6hq&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Right...but still you can't seem to win. I mean Trump took states that had been blue for a quarter century. States like MI, PA, NH, and WI. You democrats spent almost as much to try to win a district as Trump spent to win the republican primary for the whole country.
I do agree that gerrymandering is an important issue. However, there was a lot of party churn during the Obama presidency. Gerrymandering is not the reason Democrats lost so many seats.
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- 257 Democrats
- 178 Republicans
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- 188 Democrats
- 247 Republicans
Trump took PA,MI and WI by a combined total of 78,000 votes because we had a candidate who thought she didn't have to campaign in those states.Between June and November Hillary only went to WI once and she only lost the state by 23,000 votes.Hillary visited PA and MI far less than Obama did,she also spent less money in the blue wall states. If Hillary had just followed Obama's schedule and game plan she would have easily won those states.
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Hillary won NH.
If "ifs" and "buts" we're canned like nuts it would be a merry Christmas all year long.
What's more probable is a greater number would have been repulsed by Hillary's campaigning and Trumps winning percentage would have been higher.
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I don't. We're not talking rainbow land California. The States you're referring are blue collar, middle class working areas. Hillary and her message (what ever it was) connected "zero", "nada" to these folks.
That's why she lost.
Yet she basically ignored and spent very little money in those states and still only lost by a combined 78,000.If an unpopular democrat candidate who doesn't campaign and spend money in those states can get within 78,000 votes out of over 12 million we'll be fine with a candidate who actually works to win those states.