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Gothmog

(145,086 posts)
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:01 PM Nov 2018

Judge denies ACLU request to move Dodge City polling site

Source: ABC-Topeka

TOPEKA, Kan. (KAKE) -
UPDATE: A federal judge has DENIED the request to move voting in Dodge City back to the Civic Center. It will REMAIN at the Expo Center, a mile outside of town. The ACLU has said it would not appeal a ruling like this.

Read more: http://www.kake.com/story/39403520/dodge-city-voters-waiting-on-judges-ruling-in-lawsuit-over-polling-places



The opinion issued by the judge is set forth in the article.
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Judge denies ACLU request to move Dodge City polling site (Original Post) Gothmog Nov 2018 OP
Someone has to step up montanacowboy Nov 2018 #1
Then I guess there is a great need to organize...... chillfactor Nov 2018 #2
It Says the city is going to provide free rides bitterross Nov 2018 #3
Why the fuck do they have only one polling place? LakeSuperiorView Nov 2018 #4
And why the fuck do they have this judge. Fuck that judge. ancianita Nov 2018 #5
The Kansas Disease has eaten away the judge's brain, apparently. What a shame. Judi Lynn Nov 2018 #6
What we have seen in the past amcgrath Nov 2018 #7
Shameful. That is pure voter suppression. SunSeeker Nov 2018 #8
This is the cost.... SergeStorms Nov 2018 #9
Voter-suppression Debbie? Gothmog Nov 2018 #10

montanacowboy

(6,081 posts)
1. Someone has to step up
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:09 PM
Nov 2018

to run hundreds of buses from town to that god forsaken place

Jesus H Christ, how more in your face can they be

Cheat any way you can as that's the only way you can win, what shame

But they don't give a good shit about anything except winning and screwing the American people

If we don't take the House I cannot even begin to imagine what we will endure for the next two years

chillfactor

(7,573 posts)
2. Then I guess there is a great need to organize......
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:09 PM
Nov 2018

rides to get the Hispanic voters to the polls.....the only way to bet the clerk and the despicable judge!

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
3. It Says the city is going to provide free rides
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:15 PM
Nov 2018

I'm sure there won't be enough drivers and transportation but people need to use what little there will be.

 

LakeSuperiorView

(1,533 posts)
4. Why the fuck do they have only one polling place?
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:29 PM
Nov 2018

The average polling place in Kansas serves 1200 voters. There are 13,000 voters in Dodge City. My city has 120 more people than Dodge City and we have 12 polling places.

This is clearly discrimination against a Hispanic majority city.

Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
6. The Kansas Disease has eaten away the judge's brain, apparently. What a shame.
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 10:47 PM
Nov 2018


Alma mater Ottawa University University of Kansas, Lawrence
Residence Kansas City, Kansas, United States
Education University of Kansas School of Law, Ottawa University
Daniel Dale Crabtree (born 1956) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.

Biography
Crabtree received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978 from Ottawa University. He received a Juris Doctor in 1981 from the University of Kansas School of Law. He has spent his entire law career at the law firm of Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP (now Stinson Leonard Street LLP), starting as an associate in 1981 and becoming a partner in 1988. He has represented businesses and governmental entities in complex civil litigation in federal and state courts. He also serves as General Counsel to the Kansas City Royals Baseball Club. He has also served as a Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, of the Providence Medical Center and St. John Hospital.

Federal judicial service
On August 1, 2013, President Obama nominated Crabtree to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, to the seat vacated by Judge John Watson Lungstrum, who took senior status on November 2, 2010. On January 16, 2014, his nomination was reported out of committee. On April 11, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination. On April 29, 2013, a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination was agreed to by a vote of 57-39. On April 30, 2014, the nomination was confirmed by a final vote of 94-0. He received his judicial commission on May 1, 2014.

https://alchetron.com/Daniel-D-Crabtree



amcgrath

(397 posts)
7. What we have seen in the past
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 11:45 PM
Nov 2018

Is that efforts by Dems to offer rides to polling stations are blocked by Republican friendly robo-calls blocking voters from calling for ride.

SergeStorms

(19,192 posts)
9. This is the cost....
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 02:17 AM
Nov 2018

of Trump's wholesale cramming of conservative judges down our throats. 84 so far, and those are mostly in the higher courts. You know, the judges that rule on all the appeals from the lower courts? Our country is truly fucked from the judicial branch for the foreseeable future. Yet another result of the GOP's decades long plan to own this country, lock, stock, and barrel.

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