A federal judge is ordering officials in Texas to stop removing people from its voter registration rolls after declaring that the state has not seen widespread voter fraud.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery made the order in a Wednesday ruling, stating that Texas had made a “mess” after the secretary of state’s office flagged about 95,000 individuals for a citizenship status review, according to NBC News.
Biery told officials from the 18 counties named as defendants that they could not remove people from the rolls without the court’s approval. He also ordered acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley to advise officials in Texas’s remaining 254 counties not to remove voters from their rolls without court approval.
“As Robert Fulghum taught in ‘All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,’ always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes,” Biery said.
Biery condemned Whitley’s failed attempt to identify ineligible voters, saying in his ruling that state officials’ solution was “inherently paved with flawed results.”
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley was full of SHIT!
“Perfectly legal naturalized Americans were burdened with what the Court finds to be ham-handed and threatening correspondence from the state which did not politely ask for information but rather exemplifies the power of government to strike fear and anxiety and to intimidate the least powerful among us,” Biery added.
Biery’s ruling comes just over a month after Whitley’s office announced that it had identified approximately 95,000 suspected ineligible voters. The office said at the time that 58,000 of those voters had cast a ballot in at least one election since 1996.
The announcement led President Trump to renew his claims about rampant voter fraud in the state.
But the secretary of state’s office backtracked on the announcement after discovering that its original list wasn’t vetted properly and included U.S. citizens, according to NBC News.
At the beginning of February, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said he did not plan to investigate the 58,000 people flagged by the secretary of state as possible non-citizen voters.
Whitley’s office responded to the ruling by thanking the judge for acknowledging that “the list maintenance process was performed in good faith,” according to The Associated Press.
Last month’s announcement about suspected ineligible voters has thrown Whitley’s confirmation into question. The AP noted that every Democratic state senator has come out against his nomination.
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She is soooooooo pretty and talented!
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Truth
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Column: Two black women will face off in Chicago’s mayoral runoff, but mostly white voters put them there
By Dahleen Glanton
Chicago Tribune
https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1101184966887649286
We knew it!
Get to jail……………
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1101182805004869632
I have always felt like he was a shady type.
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Yeah, I’m thinking this too. Trump would not be convicted in the GOP dominated Senate. But that is not a reason for the House to pass on the outrageous corruption of his so-called presidency. They just can’t let this go.
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Word of the Day : February 28, 2019
Billion: noun BILL-yun
Definition
1 US : a number equal to 1,000 million; also, British : a number equal to 1,000 milliard
2 : a very large number
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Corruption runs rampant worldwide doesn’t it?
Been time to get that snake NUTTY-YA-HOO out as PM.
Breaking: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted
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Another CaC distraction from 45 7 all that shit Cohen laid down at the hearing yesterday.
We already know these POS are racist white trash.
Cohen testifies SDNY conducting additional Trump investigations
Rachel Maddow shares highlights from Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony and talks with Joyce Vance, former federal prosecutor, about the legal implications for Donald Trump after Cohen’s testimony about Trump’s involvement in illegal hush money payments.
Feb. 27, 2019
Yep, SDNY, this here is where the RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD.
Wow. He even found a way for the US to lose in Vietnam again.— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 28, 2019
MY Attorney General 👏👏
https://twitter.com/EricHolder/status/1100883988787458050
The enduring Republic
San Francisco East?
Seriously?
FOH!
Column: What change in Chicago will look like: Mayor Lori Lightfoot
By John Kass
Chicago Tribune
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Put this muthaphucka in jail.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson has rejected Roger Stone’s motion claiming that Mueller’s team tipped off CNN before his Jan. 25 arrest.Exhibits Stone provided “supplied no reason to believe that any contempt of court had occurred,” Berman Jackson wrote. https://t.co/v2SEYk7tQR— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 28, 2019
Tell that truth
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YES, the orange POS 45 went to Vietnam, to get away from the Michael Cohen Tsunami.
Me too
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Yes 👏👏
https://twitter.com/Ange_Amene/status/1100769723346636800
ALL.THIS
ALL.DAY
IN.EVERY WAY.
EVERYWHERE
https://twitter.com/Bakari_Sellers/status/1100916457221906432
YEAH, CAC. We know you & your cracka ass cracka GOP cohorts use racism to distract, divide, and conquer.
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SHORT: THIS AIN’T PLANTATION DAYS MOFO, & I AIN’T NEVER SCARED OF YOU!
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Good Morning,Everyone 😄😄😄