{"id":10890,"date":"2014-10-20T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T00:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10890"},"modified":"2014-10-20T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T00:10:15","slug":"on-the-upside-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10890","title":{"rendered":"On the Upside in Texas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;They can probably save money on signage by just changing the dates on some of the old signs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/texastruthserum\/status\/523610347744141313\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BuyYourPollTax_HoustonTX_LULAC_med.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/status\/523609996508950530\">tweeted<\/a> over the weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>In TX, concealed weapon Photo ID okay to vote, student ID not. Active mililitary ID okay, U.S. Veterans ID not. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/xgDjX49Auh\">http:\/\/t.co\/xgDjX49Auh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brad Friedman (@TheBradBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/status\/523609996508950530\">October 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To which <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/texastruthserum\/status\/523610347744141313\">@TexasTruthSerum replied<\/a> with the photo above and the comment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-cards=\"hidden\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\">@TheBradBlog<\/a> it&#39;s a big mess here, Brad.  We are going backwards. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/alYZPCKh4F\">pic.twitter.com\/alYZPCKh4F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Texas Blue(s) (@texastruthserum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/texastruthserum\/status\/523610347744141313\">October 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes. They are going backwards in Texas. For now.<\/p>\n<p>After a year of legal discovery and a full nine-day trial, the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10864\">U.S. District Court in Texas found<\/a> the state&#8217;s Republican Photo ID voting restriction to be both purposefully discriminatory and an &#8220;unconstitutional poll tax&#8221; likely to prevent some 600,000 <i>legally registered<\/i> voters from voting this year. The court also documented the state&#8217;s decades-long history of purposely attempting to keep certain people away from the polling place with similar disenfranchisement schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the appellate court nor the U.S. Supreme Court disagreed with the District Court. But, rather than simply continuing to enforce the state&#8217;s <i>previous<\/i> ID law, as ordered by the District Court &#8212; a law in effect since 2003, which already required that every voter present one of many different types of ID at the polling place when voting, and despite just <i>two<\/i> convictions for polling place voter impersonation out of more than 20 million votes cast in Texas over the past decade &#8212; the U.S. Supreme Court is now <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10888\">allowing the purposefully discriminatory new law to be used<\/a> during this year&#8217;s midterm elections anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting began today (Monday, Oct. 20th) in the Lone Star State. Good luck, Texas. Sorry we failed to protect <i>all<\/i> of your (previously) legal voters from purposeful discrimination by desperate Republican officials, including state Attorney General Greg Abbott who defended the law in court (and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10204\">lied about it<\/a>), even as he campaigned to benefit from it this year while campaigning to be the next Governor of Texas.<\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><b>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\">help support The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s<\/a> fiercely independent, award-winning coverage of your electoral system &#8212; <i>now in our ELEVENTH YEAR!<\/i> &#8212;  as available from no other media outlet in the nation&#8230;<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;They can probably save money on signage by just changing the dates on some of the old signs&#8230; I had tweeted over the weekend&#8230; In TX, concealed weapon Photo ID okay to vote, student ID not. Active mililitary ID okay, U.S. Veterans ID not. http:\/\/t.co\/xgDjX49Auh &mdash; Brad Friedman (@TheBradBlog) October 18, 2014 To which @TexasTruthSerum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[596,106,28,172,300,126,47,313],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2014","category-election-fraud","category-election-reform","category-photo-id-laws","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-texas","category-us-supreme-court","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10890"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}