Federal Judge Lets Iowa Keep Challenging Voter Rolls Despite Potential Impact On Naturalized Citizens
Source: Huff Post/AP
Nov 3, 2024, 06:46 PM EST
A federal judge ruled Sunday that Iowa can continue challenging the validity of hundreds of ballots from potential noncitizens even though critics said the effort threatens the voting rights of people whove recently become U.S. citizens.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher, an appointee of President Joe Biden, sided with the state in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in the Iowa capital of Des Moines on behalf of the League of Latin American Citizens of Iowa and four recently naturalized citizens. The four were on the states list of questionable registrations to be challenged by local elections officials.
The states attorney general and secretary of state argued that investigating and potentially removing 2,000 names would prevent illegal voting by noncitizens. GOP officials across the U.S. have made possible voting by noncitizen immigrants a key election-year talking point even though it is rare. Their focus has come with former President Donald Trump falsely suggesting that his opponents already are committing fraud to prevent his return to the White House.
In his ruling Sunday, Locher pointed to a U.S. Supreme Court decision four days prior that allowed Virginia to resume a similar purge of its voter registration rolls even though it was impacting some U.S. citizens.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2024-iowa-voter-rolls-ruling_n_6728097ee4b07ebc5a29b71f
JT45242
(2,940 posts)This is my worry...
Their judges are loose Cannons and ignore the law and precedent. From bottom to top... Leonard Leo picked the most easily corruptible for the bench.
Judges appointed by Dems (and tbh most judges from shrub except SCOTUS), take their oath and the law seriously.
JohnSJ
(96,685 posts)ananda
(30,853 posts)I knew it would end up like this
since it gives SCOTUS an excuse
to allow purges.
This totally sucks!!!!
Envirogal
(175 posts)How many non-citizens would they even have?
BumRushDaShow
(143,113 posts)by Anne Allen
SIOUX CITY, IA
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
Perdue Farms Perdue Premium Meat Co. will be unveiling its latest operations expansion in February. The meat company has invested $29 million into upgrading its Sioux City, Iowa, pork harvesting facility, which will include a two-story, 50,000-square-foot addition.
This is an investment in and implementing of state-of-the-art cutting technology with robotics and computer imaging, Gary Malenke, Senior Vice President of Perdue Premium Pork Operations, disclosed to news source Sioux Center News. Well have the ability to cut meat with tremendous precision while adopting some of the automation systems that are available to us.
The expansion project, which is expected to add 50 jobs to the facility, first kicked off in August of 2018. The facility addition will also allow Perdue to create more case-ready product for its customers.
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The news source also notes that the Sioux Center plant processes about 4,500 pigs a day and more than 1.2 million annually.
Need I say more about who is probably processing "4,500 pigs a day"?