On September 18, the Texas Supreme Court asked the Texas Secretary of State, and the Texas Democratic and Republican Parties, to respond to Bob Barr’s lawsuit over the fact that the two major parties did not certify their national tickets on time. The response is due September 22 at 3 p.m. Thanks to Angela Grover for this news.
It is a positive sign that the judge is taking the lawsuit seriously. I was expecting them to dismiss it as frivilous.
A party hack supreme court paying some attention to a mere law ???
Shocking.
How soon before the party hacks in the TX legislature change the law — making the case totally obsolete/moot ???
Last I checked, aren’t most ex post facto laws and/or retroactive laws illegal?
The TX Legislature only meets in odd years so a special session would have to be called.
Actually, the ban on ex post facto laws in the US Constitution only applies to *criminal* laws — and even then only to laws that make things worse somehow for the accused/convicted. Or so I think I recall they taught me at Cooley Law School.
jalp
running for County Clerk
while my Bar-exam results
are still outstanding . . .
(the closer race for me may be
whether I see the test scores
or the vote counts first!)
How soon before the TX party hack Guv calls a special session of the gerrymander party hack TX Legislature — to change the law (to get the D/R Prez/VP candidates on the Nov. ballots — WHATEVER IT TAKES) ???
Or perhaps just the Elephant candidates — since the Elephants control Texas ???
Attention any juveniles on this list — ALL State legislatures and the Congress are ANTI-Democracy gerrymander regimes — filled with EVIL powermad gerrymander monarchs — who know only tax / borrow / spend and doing WHATEVER to stay in power.
Forget ALL the brainwashing stuff about *good government* in MORONIC civics / government books in the rotted public schools.
New Age EVIL regimes are playing for TOTAL PERMANENT control of everybody and everything in the U.S.A. (and the rest of the world) — i.e. making everybody and everything a tax slave (or even an actual slave) under the control of the gerrymander monarchs — ruling class.
Oh wow, “Demo Rep”. I don’t think you used “party hack” or gerrymander enough. I especially like “EVIL powermad gerrymander monarchs”. You are WAY too excited to use derogatory buzz words. Please find some different synonyms at last. You’re bringing down the professionalism and seriousness of this news and discussion. I’m not even disagreeing with you, but your extreme language brings down your credibility.
#7 How naive / clueless are some folks ???
ALL regimes in the U.S.A. are ANTI-Democracy regimes.
Half the votes in half the gerrymander districts = about 25 percent minority rule.
Actual minority rule is much, much, much worse due to primary math — that causes EVIL powermad gerrymander monarchs to get nominated and later elected.
Gerrymanders started in England in the 1200s for the House of Commons.
Carried to the colonies in the 1600s – 1700s — after the male Electors STOPPED meeting in person to enact colony laws.
Continued after 4 July 1776 with regime change.
3 gerrymander layers added in the 1787 U.S.A. regime –
House of Reps, Senate, Electoral College.
Result — the EVIL mess in the U.S.A. — directly due to the EVIL gerrymander monarchs — ALL members of the gerrymander Congress and ALL members of every gerrymander State legislature.
How much is being added to the national debt by the EVIL monsters in D.C. to allegedly save the ENTIRE savings – investment structure in the U.S.A. — i.e. to bailout lots of EVIL FRAUD loans ???
REAL Democracy NOW
P.R. for legislative bodies and Approval Voting for nonpartisan executive / judicial offices.
Otherwise — like watching the ship of state sink — with the various circus sideshow ballot access court cases by third parties and independents — like gnats on the wild animal Donkey and Elephant gerrymander monarchs.