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Judge restricts Arizona ballot watchers

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The temporary restraining order, from U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi, limits what Clean Elections USA can do.

A temporary restraining order was granted Tuesday in a suit aimed at keeping an election watchdog group in Arizona from intimidating the state’s voters.

The order by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi bars Clean Elections USA from coming close to drop boxes, open-carrying guns near drop boxes and yelling at people putting ballots in those boxes. Liburdi, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, had previously refused to bar the monitors but gave the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans another chance to argue why the poll-watchers should be restricted.
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AZ may be the first state to go dictatorship.
 

The temporary restraining order, from U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi, limits what Clean Elections USA can do.

A temporary restraining order was granted Tuesday in a suit aimed at keeping an election watchdog group in Arizona from intimidating the state’s voters.

The order by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi bars Clean Elections USA from coming close to drop boxes, open-carrying guns near drop boxes and yelling at people putting ballots in those boxes. Liburdi, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, had previously refused to bar the monitors but gave the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans another chance to argue why the poll-watchers should be restricted.
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AZ may be the first state to go dictatorship.
I wonder if he changed his mind because the DoJ added their interest in the case?
 

The temporary restraining order, from U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi, limits what Clean Elections USA can do.

A temporary restraining order was granted Tuesday in a suit aimed at keeping an election watchdog group in Arizona from intimidating the state’s voters.

The order by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi bars Clean Elections USA from coming close to drop boxes, open-carrying guns near drop boxes and yelling at people putting ballots in those boxes. Liburdi, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, had previously refused to bar the monitors but gave the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans another chance to argue why the poll-watchers should be restricted.
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AZ may be the first state to go dictatorship.

This is what gets me: Every time, literally every time, a judge puts a temporary stay on anything - anything! - to allow the involved parties to present arguments, the side that perceives itself aggreged panics & lashes-out that we have a crooked partisan judge! We're are seeing this now in Trump's SCOTUS tax case. (though after Dobbs I might see the paranoia)
 
This is what gets me: Every time, literally every time, a judge puts a temporary stay on anything - anything! - to allow the involved parties to present arguments, the side that perceives itself aggreged panics & lashes-out that we have a crooked partisan judge! We're are seeing this now in Trump's SCOTUS tax case. (though after Dobbs I might see the paranoia)
Yeah well, the Supreme Court just got rid of Roe and is set to get rid of affirmative action, both are over 50 years of standing and both are supported by the majority in this country. They're also overriding gun laws in liberal-run states. Americans aren't stupid. This alone is enough to make people paranoid.

Trump didn't exactly make Americans feel the judges he appointed represented this country, quite the opposite. He made sure they represented his base.


In four years, the Trump administration put a record 226 life-tenure federal judges on the bench. And while these judges don’t make the headlines like the Supreme Court does, they are already transforming our country, a little bit at a time.

Perhaps most important, they will be there for many, many years. Because Trump’s minions chose the youngest cohort of judges in recorded history, some of these people are in their thirties and forties. That means they could still be on the bench in 40, even 50 years — if climate change hasn’t flooded their courtrooms by then.





SO, WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
Well, for a start, they’re 84 percent white and 76 percent male, well out of proportion to the population, which is 58 percent non-Hispanic white, and 50 percent male. (At the appellate-court level, the slant is even greater: 43 of Trump’s 54 appointees are men.) Keep that in mind the next time a court decides something about women’s rights to control their bodies.

And they were, statistically speaking, remarkably less qualified than usual. In four years of Trump, the nonpartisan, nonpolitical American Bar Association rated 10 of his nominees as “not qualified,” something they’d done only 12 times in the previous 27 years. (True to form, Republicans have attacking the American Bar Association itself.)
 
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