February 19, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
With Barr appearing to establish himself some level of independence (kabuki in my opinion) it appears that mulvaey figures now is the time to get out.
1Reported that he is trying to return to his tea party roots.
Mulvaney has been reported having said publicly that thuglican are hypocrites on budget deficits.
Sounds like he is calculating that getting fired by demented Donnie will work in his long time political/ economic future.
Warren’s probably magnanimous, and practical enough, to offer ol’ Bloomy a choice position in her incoming administration. Would Mike Bloomberg be graceful enough to accept it?
I only watched a little of the debate, wish they all had spent most of that energy and time ripping Comrade Donnei into shreds of compost instead of each other, but that’s the way this game’s played.
2On Topic: POLL TAX AGONY and the ECSTASY
“We disagree with the ruling,” Of course you do Gov. De Santis because you’re S O L !
Court; Florida can’t bar felons from vote over fines, fees
Edit: Florida cannot, for now, bar felons who served their time from registering to vote simply because they have failed to pay all fines and fees stemming from their cases, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Tallahassee federal judge’s preliminary injunction that a state law implementing Amendment 4 amounted to an unfair poll tax that would disenfranchise many of the released felons. “We disagree with the ruling,” said Helen Ferre, chief spokeswoman for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. She said the state would immediately ask the entire 11th Circuit to reconsider.
The case is one of several now before judges amid high-stakes legal skirmishes over Florida elections, which have drawn national scrutiny because of the state’s perennial status as a political battleground and the razor-thin margins deciding some high-profile contests.
Amendment 4 was approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 to allow most felons who served their time to regain the right to vote. But soon after, the Republican-led Legislature passed a law stipulating that they must first pay any fines and fees before their sentences could be deemed complete under the law.
Voting rights groups representing 17 plaintiffs sued in federal court, seeking to overturn the law.
In its ruling Wednesday, the circuit court said the financial requirement “punishes those who cannot pay more harshly than those who can — and does so by continuing to deny them access to the ballot box.”
The court added that previous U.S. Supreme Court rulings required it to “apply heightened scrutiny in asking whether the requirement violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as applied to these plaintiffs.”
The appeals court ruled that it does, and it affirmed the preliminary injunction issued last year by a federal district court judge in Tallahassee.
Last year’s preliminary injunction allowed felons to register to vote, regardless of their ability to pay fines, restitution and other fees. It was issued ahead of a full trial that is scheduled to begin in April.
Wednesday’s appellate court ruling came one day after the registration deadline for Florida’s March 17 presidential preference primary.
While the ruling only applies to the plaintiffs, the case has broad ramifications for the 1.6 million Florida felons who have completed their prison sentences and could regain their voting privileges under Amendment 4.
According to a study by a University of Florida political scientist, about 80% of released felons still have legal financial obligations.
Florida officials had hoped to win a stay of the preliminary injunction issued last October by U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, who called Florida’s voter registration process in the wake of Amendment 4 an “administrative mess.”
While Hinkle said Florida has the right to deny felons access to the ballot box if they have the means to repay outstanding financial obligations, he said Florida officials cannot deny the vote to felons who are to poor to fully settle up.
In issuing his ruling, he put pressure on state elections officials to bring clarity to the voter registration process. The appellate court’s ruling only increased that pressure on county elections officials, who are mostly responsible for administering the state’s election rules.
“This is a tremendous win for our clients and for our democracy,” said Sean Morales-Doyle, a senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice.
“Because the governor is still apparently planning to challenge this ruling, and because the governor and secretary of state are providing no clarity,” Morales-Doyle said, “there are a lot of people in Florida who are stuck with some uncertainty and some legitimate fear, and that’s really unfortunate and not the way elections should work.”
Two of the three judges responsible for Wednesday’s ruling were appointed to the federal bench by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, while the other was first appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, but later elevated to the appellate court by President Bill Clinton.
Meanwhile, two of the appellate court’s newest members — Robert Luck and Barbara Lagoa — were most recently members of the Florida Supreme Court. Both were appointed to the state’s high court by DeSantis shortly after taking office last year.
Florida’s only Democratic statewide elected official, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, praised the appellate court’s ruling and urged the governor to drop further appeals.
https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/court-florida-cant-bar-felons-from-vote-over-fines-fees/
3Sandridge @2, won’t disagree that Warren is “probably magnanimous, and practical.” But to collapse on the wrong side of pragmatic and offer Magic Mike a job? Dawg save us all, if she does. That would topple Obama’s choice of Tim Geithner for Treasury as a real head bang moment. Or, Arne Duncan at Ed.
Ms. Juanita Jean Herownself, good choice as a summary as to Magic Mike’s debate performance. Dude was an epic fail.
4Pres Warren could emulate JFK and put bloomberg in as sec of defense with mandate to cut waste, fraud and abuse, that should reduce DoD budget by half.
5@K. #5: The first thing the next POTUS should do is streamline citizenship for non citizens who served in the military. Amongst all the dockish moves by this Admin, taking away that pathway after so many have already served is especially infuriating. After holding children hostage…
6First thing is to streamline citizenship for all none documented including dreamers.
7As for none citizen veterans as long as they did not particiape in war crimes i.e. worked at gitmo or any “secret” prisons or Abu gharib, participiated in any torture, engaged in any activity that violated Geneva rules etc, including illegal war of conquest that was the iraq invasion.
We already have enough inhumane people in this country with out allowing others who feel just obeying orders is a justification for crimes against humanity and abuse of the powerless.
A bit like that ICE employee who found out, after 20 years of abusing immigrants, that he wasn’t a citizen and now claims that it is not “fair” that the same rules he enforced be applied to him.
Just as we should be trying to keep out punks and thugs who worked for pinochet, and other abusive regimes, who engaged in torture so should we apply the same standards for those who engaged in same bad behavior while disgracing the uniform and the flag.
@Jane & PKM: as @K sugests, give Bloomberg a job, but not something like Treasury. DOD might be good, or clean up the mess at HUD after Carson. He’s no dummy and will listen to and learn form experts. Just give him strict marching orders and use a short leash if necessary.
8I would never envision bloomberg in any position wher he could further punish minorities or the poor just because they are minorities or poor.
9So HUd is out.
At DoD he could force an honest up to date audit. Cut bank on unnecessary and expensive number of senior officers impose contract obligations on suppliers and basically clean up the fiscal cesspool that the US military is frolicing in.