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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 200: Sayonara Nimrata
Paratroopa1 10/13/18 9:45:56 PM #197:	Suprak the Stud posted... Not_an_Owl posted... Something I don't think was discussed here - in a 5-4 decision (Kavanaugh voted in the majority) this week the Supreme Court upheld a North Dakota law requiring voters to have a physical mailing address, not just a P.O. box. Why is this important? Because in North Dakota there are thousands of Native Americans living on reservations who do not have addresses, only P.O. boxes. Before now that was never an issue, but now they can't vote, and with less than a month before the midterms there is precious little time to do anything about it. Just in case you thought GOP voter suppression was no longer a thing. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-dakota-voter-id-law-upheld-by-supreme-court-could-affect-senate-race/ 1) Kavanaugh didnt vote because he wasnt present during arguments 2) Breyer and Sotomayor voted with the 6-2 majority Unless youre talking about a second ND voter ID case Im not aware about in which case sorry for my snark! had seen somewhere that this was a 5-4 decision but I'm willing to retract I've actually had a long conversation with someone about this and I think my arguments against the ND law are too weak from a textual perspective to ding Kavanaugh for, but I'm tired and this topic is not worthy of me repeating them long story short is that the ruling is probably unfortunately correct even if I think the law is vastly insufficient to protect people, that's how the law is <cite>Paratroopa1 posted [p:910484115] in Politics C... [t:77088434]...</cite> <quote><cite>Suprak the Stud posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Not_an_Owl posted...</cite> <quote>Something I don't think was discussed here - in a 5-4 decision (Kavanaugh voted in the majority) this week the Supreme Court upheld a North Dakota law requiring voters to have a physical mailing address, not just a P.O. box. Why is this important? Because in North Dakota there are thousands of Native Americans living on reservations who do not have addresses, only P.O. boxes. Before now that was never an issue, but now they can't vote, and with less than a month before the midterms there is precious little time to do anything about it. Just in case you thought GOP voter suppression was no longer a thing.</quote> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-dakota-voter-id-law-upheld-by-supreme-court-could-affect-senate-race/ 1) Kavanaugh didnt vote because he wasnt present during arguments 2) Breyer and Sotomayor voted with the 6-2 majority Unless youre talking about a second ND voter ID case Im not aware about in which case sorry for my snark!</quote> had seen somewhere that this was a 5-4 decision but I'm willing to retract I've actually had a long conversation with someone about this and I think my arguments against the ND law are too weak from a textual perspective to ding Kavanaugh for, but I'm tired and this topic is not worthy of me repeating them long story short is that the ruling is probably unfortunately correct even if I think the law is vastly insufficient to protect people, that's how the law is</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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