Florida GOP challenged a federal judge’s order that Florida must change the process used to restore voting rights to former prisoners.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi, acting on behalf of Rick Scott and the state’s clemency board, appealed the judge’s decision to block the state’s current system of forcing ex-felons to wait at least five years before they can ask for the right to vote. U.S. District Mark Walker had given Scott and state officials until April 26 to create a new process, but attorneys working for Bondi asked that Walker’s order be placed on hold while the case moves to a federal appeals court in Atlanta.
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Hours after the appeal was made, Walker turned down Florida’s request to put the case on hold and said this “court does
not play games.
not play games.
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“Rather than comply with the requirements of the United States Constitution, defendants continue to insist they can do whatever they want with hundreds of thousands of Floridians’ voting rights and absolutely zero standards,” Walker wrote. “They ask this Court to stay its prior orders. No.” here
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They can see the ass whooping coming!
