Reversal of voter ID law by court is misguided
Two judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals were wrong to
disregard the will of Arizonans over a law requiring would-be voters to
show identification at the polls and present proof of citizenship to
register to vote.
The ID and proof-of-citizenship provisions were part of Proposition 200, which Arizona voters approved by 56 percent in 2004.
The Associated Press reported in Friday's Star that the order by the
9th Circuit judges means people who want to register to vote for the
Nov. 7 general election won't have to prove U.S. citizenship. The
deadline to register is midnight Monday. The order also means voters
won't have to show ID to receive a ballot. <snip>
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Boston Globe columnist
Kathy Young
got her panties bunched up over the public debate of whether New York
Times editor Bill Keller should be tried for treason and
executed. The discussion got down to whether to use lethal
injection, or the firing squad (I like stoning). Nothing will come of it, this time, but it was a good thing.
On October 10, 1997, Mark Helprin, in an article simply titled "
IMPEACH ,"
was the first journalist to use the "I" word and Bill
Clinton in the same sentence (and this before Monica!). It was shocking, but he was able to later be impeached. The public needs time to inure themselves against necessary, but unpleasant tasks.
If the
Times' disclosure
of state secrets is deemed rope-worthy, what can we say about today's
liberal judges, without at least demanding impeachment, let alone ...
other stuff? If our current court system was my garage, I'd
despair of ever being able to clean it up, and just burn it down and
rebuild. I am absolutely convinced that we as a nation cannot
survive these judges, nor their democrat party sponsors. Let's get used to that buzz.
