Texas Republicans have asked a federal judge to throw out 100,000 ballots in Harris County...

[Nevilledog]

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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes
We’re getting into judicial coup territory here...

Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC
Texas Republicans have asked a federal judge to throw out 100,000 ballots in Harris County cast through curbside voting. They drew Judge Andrew Hanen, one of the most notoriously partisan Republican judges in the entire federal judiciary. This is alarming. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20401146/sd-tex-20-cv-03709.pdf…
11:19 AM · Oct 31, 2020

[Dem2]

1. I wonder why they don't want patriotic Americans to vote?

huh!

[dchill]

2. Specifically, because they're more than likely to be Democrats.

[Backseat Driver]

3. They could make them all "provisional"

to force investigation(s) before counting. It would slow the count but be more accurate (likely for no good reason).

[SWBTATTReg]

4. All 100,000 ballots? All of them? Isn't this way overkill and how are they justifying this? I got

a feeling that this is going to the very top of the justice food chain and get finally ruled on to let the ballots stand as cast (don't pitch).

In what world would this be considered fair or normal?

[Drunken Irishman]

5. I love Mark Stern's tweets. Everything is alarming to him.

I'm just tired of being told how alarming something is when that something is so unknown.

[getagrip_already]

6. I'm confused - didn't they "just" try this and it was dismissed?

It was earlier in the week.

Is this a new challenge or an appeal?

[Hugin]

11. The GrOPpers are 'working the refs'.

It was tested several times in 2000 and perfected in 2016. Keep banging the drum until you get the answer you want and then stop.

A typical strategy for them... Watch for it to be deployed often over the next couple of weeks.

[Deacon Blue]

21. They Don't Have to Work the Refs...

...they hired them.

[TwilightZone]

16. Different case, same topic. Result will likely be the same.

TX Supreme Court already tossed a drive-in case. This one will likely meet the same fate.

[Iliyah]

7. Wasn't it legal . ...

if so, in normal times this would be denied.

[JCMach1]

8. More than 100K almost all counties in TX do this for disabled

Voters

[BComplex]

9. Can his ruling be appealed, since this is a partisan judge?

[Chainfire]

10. Dirty tricks and illegal actions is the only hope for a Trump victory.

We ain't seen nothin yet!

[PTWB]

12. Are these votes segregated?

If they haven’t separated them from the other votes, how will they know which ones were curbside votes?

[Chainfire]

14. Yes, but probably not the way you intended the question

You can bet that this action is not taking place in they doctor, lawyer and architect side of town.

[Ms. Toad]

17. Likely -

Verification of absentee ballots can take place on arrival.
Counting can begin in some counties at the end of in person voting.

Counting is a mushy term - so I'm not sure where in the process of removing the ballots from the envelopes, scanning them, and pushing the tabulation button "counting" begins.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Can we appeal?

[TwilightZone]

15. Texas SC already tossed a similar case.

This one is going nowhere.

[Ms. Toad]

18. Different court, different law.

The results in SC won't be controlling.

[TwilightZone]

19. Same basis.

If a completely-Republican Texas SC isn't touching it, this guy isn't likely to, either, notwithstanding the doom-saying.

He's also not the end of the line.

[Ms. Toad]

20. Not the same basis - unless the underlying law is identical.

Interpretation of what is permitted (or not) is highly dependent on the specific language of the law. Interpretation by a court in a different jurisdiction of an identical law is persuasive, but not binding.