Why (** *** ***) to vote for Hillary Clinton
There are many important reasons to elect a democrat to the White House in 2016. One of the more important ones, is having a democratic president in the White House–who will appoint the next several U.S. Supreme Court Justices and numerous critical lower court justices.
One excellent example of the importance of lower court justices is what has occurred in the swing states of Ohio and North Carolina recently. Republicans in state after state (where they are the ruling party), engage in orchestrated and systemic voter suppression and repression, because they know they cannot win with high voter turnout.
Republicans attempt at voter suppression and repression was dealt a serious blow when the following decisions were rendered by lower court justices.
Ohio Republicans lost another federal lawsuit today over their attempts to restrict Ohioans’ voting rights.
Judge Algenon L. Marbley of U.S. District Court in Columbus ruled that state officials violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law and the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Democratic appointee’s decision today echoes that of GOP appointed Judge Michael H. Watson late last month on a separate case that restored a “Golden Week” of early voting Republicans had eliminated.
Marbley also banned enforcement of several sections of state law dealing with absentee and provisional voting procedures that caused ballots to be thrown out even for “trivial” paperwork errors such as an error in listing date of birth.
The state’s Democratic Party was among the plaintiffs who sued Ohio’s elections chief over a series of Republican-backed voting changes.
Such policies included the elimination of a week of early voting in which Ohioans could also register to vote — a period known as golden week. Democrats alleged the change disproportionately burdened black voters. The state argued that the changes were minor and that Ohio residents had many opportunities to vote.
U.S. District Judge Michael Watson sided with Democrats on their golden-week claim, ruling that the cut violates the Voting Rights Act and voters’ equal protection rights.
Also on Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit delivered an incremental victory for critics of Republican-engineered changes to North Carolina’s elections procedures.
In a brief order, the court said North Carolina could not, at least for now, enforce its recent rollbacks of same-day voter registration and out-of-precinct voting. The appeals court, which sits in Richmond, Va., will hear arguments about North Carolina’s practices on June 21, nearly two months after a federal judge upheld the procedures.
