Good news! The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has given Texas the green light to actually enforce voter integrity laws.
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the State of Texas’ request to pause a district court’s injunction against a 2021 Texas election law, citing the Supreme Court’s guidance against altering election laws close to an election.
The order notes that the “law has been on the books for over three years, but the court did not see fit to enjoin until now.”
In 2021, Abbott signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 1, which added provisions designed to prevent voter fraud by creating additional criminal statutes, prohibiting unsolicited mail-in ballot applications, and setting more ground rules for early voting and voter registration.
The law creates an offense for “vote harvesting services” and specifically bans “in-person interaction with one or more voters, in the physical presence of an official ballot, a ballot voted by mail, or an application for ballot by mail, intended to deliver votes for a specific candidate or measure.”
The “Election Protection and Integrity Act” was a centerpiece of Texas GOP legislation and received significant pushback from Democratic lawmakers at the time it passed, sparking a quorum bust as many members of the Democratic caucus fled to Washington D.C. The U.S. Department of Justice even went as far as filing a lawsuit to challenge two provisions of the law.
Six progressive organizations sued the state over the election integrity laws, with a federal judge issuing a ruling last month that declared the law unconstitutional and enjoined state officials from enforcing it.
Funny how Democrat-appointed judges always seem to want to let Democrats cheat. We covered the stay here.
La Union Del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) was the lead plaintiff, along with the League of Women Voters of Texas, the Texas American Federation of Teachers, the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and OCA-Greater Houston.
All of these, including the teacher’s union, are merely appendages of the social justice-infected Democratic Party.
Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has launched voter integrity investigations into a number of Texas counties, promised to appeal the ruling to the 5th Circuit Court.
Days later, the 5th Circuit issued a temporary stay of the federal judge’s ruling.
Circuit Court Judge James Ho, who authored the court’s decision, explained, “The district court issued this injunction after counties have already started to mail absentee ballots.”
“So Texans are about to cast ballots not subject to voter privacy protections currently on the books but rather subject to the injunction issued by the district court.”
Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez, in the concurring judgment, wrote, “Because of the proximity of the injunction’s issuance to the upcoming election, issuance of a stay is consistent with both Supreme Court and this court’s precedent.”
Democrats have previously used politiqueras all across south Texas to wheedle, cajole, steal, and fake votes for Democrats. This ruling should prevent at least this one avenue of Democratic Party voting fraud for this election.
Tags: 2024 Election, 2024 Presidential Race, Elections, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Irma Carrillo Ramirez, James Ho, La Union Del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), League of Women Voters, Texas, Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, Texas American Federation of Teachers, voting fraud
Fifth Circuit has been on a tear recently. See last Friday night’s blistering benchslap of district judge Janice Jack (who has essentially been running the Texas foster care system for the past decade):
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-40248.CV0.pdf
Not only did the court vacate her orders, they ordered the case be reassigned to a different judge. That’s some serious beatdown. . . . .
If we cannot trust elections, there will be a very uncivil war.
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“This ruling should prevent at least this one avenue of Democratic Party voting fraud for this election.”
I seriously doubt it will prevent it. A law against something doesn’t just make it stop. This ruling may cause some reduction, to the extent the organizations/individuals engaged in this activity fear enforcement. How likely that is, I couldn’t say.
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