Laffy
BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses a conservative lawsuit challenging a Washington, D.C. law that allows noncitizen residents to vote in local elections. Republican voters argued the law "discriminates against U.S. citizens living in D.C."
🔗: https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/washington-d-c-noncitizen-voting-challenge/
🚨 Voting Rights Victory in Washington, D.C.

Read about the latest voting rights victory in Hall v. D.C. Board of Elections.

Democracy Docket
Mar 20, 2024 at 8:24pmWeb
Show threadPlay Ball and Fight FascistsMar 20, 2024
@GottaLaff
Like Republicans have ever given a rats ass about DC voters.
Show threadWiley MillerMar 20, 2024
@GottaLaff
How, exactly, does allowing other people to vote discriminate against anyone else casting their vote?
Show threadPlay Ball and Fight FascistsMar 20, 2024
@Wileymiller @GottaLaff
I think it's just code for "white Republicans are outnumbered here and we don't like it"
Show threadMichael GemarMar 20, 2024
@Wileymiller @GottaLaff Conservatives generally don’t like it when people who aren’t them get rights.
Show threadLaffyMar 20, 2024
@Wileymiller It discriminates against the GOP Fascist loser, silly
Show threadWiley MillerMar 20, 2024
@GottaLaff
Yep. As the adage goes, “When someone is accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
Show threadToken Sane PersonMar 20, 2024
@GottaLaff Didn't someone once say "No taxation without representation"?
Show threadAviva GaryMar 20, 2024
@GottaLaff *white* US citizens because they have worked very hard to ensure they are the only group who votes 🙃
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 20, 2024

@GottaLaff

#USpol #EUpol #Elections2024

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/s: The #HeritageFoundation seems to be running out of competent lawyers.
You get the politicians you vote 🗳 for!/s

The #UnitedStates of America, a 👉nation state👈.

How about voting in the #EuropeanUnion, a 👉confederation of sovereign nations?

"All #EU citizens also have the right to vote and stand as candidate in local or municipal elections in the country they live in, again under the same conditions as the...

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/eu-citizenship-and-democracy/democracy-and-electoral-rights_en

Democracy and electoral rights

The Commission's activities to safeguard European democracy, promote free and fair elections and uphold electoral rights of EU citizens.

European Commission
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 20, 2024

@GottaLaff

#USpol #EUpol #Elections2024

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...nationals of that country.

This is in Article 22 of the EU treaty and Articles 39 and 40 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights."

Local voting is a "constitutional right" of each adult EU citizen.

*"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."* Only this time, with #Denmark being a full #EU member, the state where something, and #election rights in particular, is rotten, are the #US.

#VoteBlue #Resist

Poor America!
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Show thread@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPEMar 21, 2024

@GottaLaff
Wait till those GOP "reformers" discover there are more US citizens in Puerto Rico than in all of Vermont, Wyoming, Alaska and North Dakota, and yet Puerto Ricans have zero electoral college votes for electing a president and no representation in the Senate, and those four states have 8.

Surely they will be so outraged they will immediately be demanding #StatehoodForPuertoRico
#notaxationwithoutrepresentation