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ROG62 » 12 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

12 minutes ago

Activist Judge Belies the Left’s Non-Citizen Voting Narrative…

Biden-appointed judge in southern Florida called the federal law banning non-citizen voting unconstitutional. US District Judge David Leibowitz of the Southern District of Florida dismissed federal charges against a Jamaican woman who voted in the 2020 presidential election, despite not being a citizen. He’s now being called an activist judge by conservatives. Are they right? Is non-citizen voting really a state issue? Well, it doesn’t take a law degree or years of experience in the courtroom to read the Constitution – and that doesn’t leave many alternatives.

In a 31-page ruling, Judge Leibowitz said the Constitution gives states the sole authority to determine who can vote in elections, not Congress. As such, the law used to prosecute Chelsea Cox was unconstitutional. “The Constitution commits to the States, and the states alone, the general power to set voter qualifications in federal elections,” he wrote. “This is clear from both the text of the document and the debates at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.”

 When a federal judge says the Constitution is clear, that is the word of an expert, someone who knows – or, at least, should know – better than most. Frequently the Constitution is, in fact, not so clear. This time, however, it is. Here’s what it says in Article I, Section 4:

“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”

https://www.libertynation.com/activist- ... tm_id=1037

“chusing”? yeah, it’s “crystal clear”…