SCOTUS decision on Arizona voter rules could mean trouble for DOJ suit against Georgia – IOTW Report

SCOTUS decision on Arizona voter rules could mean trouble for DOJ suit against Georgia

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A Supreme Court ruling upholding Arizona voting restrictions could spell trouble for a legal challenge by U.S Attorney General Merrick Garland to a new Georgia election integrity law.

The court ruled Thursday in a 6-3 vote that a set of Arizona voting rules do not violate federal law. Breaking along conservative-liberal ideological lines, the court found that the state’s voting policies were not enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose that would have violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 

Garland announced announced last week that the Department of Justice will sue Georgia over its new voting law, S.B. 202, claiming the measure’s voter ID rules violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prevents states from denying or interfering with the rights of Americans to vote on account of their race. Thursday’s SCOTUS decision in the Arizona case is a signal that the high court may not buy Garland’s arguments. 

The SCOTUS decision “absolutely” damages the DOJ’s case against Georgia,” Harvard Professor of Law Emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Just the News.

“If the Arizona voting decision had come down a month ago, I don’t think the DOJ would’ve issued such a broad-based challenge” to the Georgia law, said the constitutional law scholar.

Calling Garland’s decision to bring the suit “a mistake,” Dershowitz said, “There’s a difference between not liking a law and finding it to legitimately be in violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.” more here https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/f-scotuss-decision-arizona-voter-rules-could-badly-impede-merrick-garlands

10 Comments on SCOTUS decision on Arizona voter rules could mean trouble for DOJ suit against Georgia

  1. :Watches wild wheat grow from sand bag bunker. Uses sandpaper to scrape rust off rifle. Checks AARP membership all while waiting for some sign that corrective action to restore the Republic is imminent:

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  2. Aaron — cancel your AARP membership. They’re a Leftist org. But there’s a conservative counterpart to AARP, but I can’t remember the name just now.

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  3. It had no standing from the get. Merrick Garland is a brain damaged fag that has zero respect for the Constitution and will obey anything George Soros tells him to do. He’s sold his sole. A kept little bitch of a man.

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  4. BS
    8 months ago Prof Emer said Roberts would hear evidence of Dominion fabricating votes! Roberts has proved Alan not just wrong, but VERY WRONG, 8 times as of 7/3/21! Alan is talking with his heart, not his brain!

    Bet on Grland, with Roberts backing.

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  5. Dersh was being diplomatic when he called the DOJ suit against Georgia a “broad-based challenge”. It is in fact a “Dear diary” concoction of butt-hurt and fantasy, devoid of legal argument and best read as lurid pulp fiction similar to the scribblings of Selena “Tank” Montgomery.

    It is extremely doubtful that the DOJ could find a jury dim, biased and craven enough to rule in their favor, and it is more likely that the suit is merely a campaign tool for Democrat demagoguery in 2022 and 2024.

    That being said, some big changes need to be made to election laws all over the country in the next year, or whale oil beef hooked again.

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  6. Dershowitz is naïve – he actually believes that the law and judges TRY to be impartial and seek justice.

    Naivete at his age is kind of pathetic – but he can’t bring himself to accept that most judges and lawyers are treasonous assholes who use the law as a cudgel.
    (treasonous because their actions, with malice aforethought, undermine the Republic)

    izlamo delenda est …

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