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A Monday decision from the U.S. Supreme Court compels Arizona’s top Republican leaders to sit for depositions in an ongoing federal lawsuit concerning state voting rights.
In their brief order, the justices refused to block the testimony from Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma and Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen – both Republicans – where they must explain, under oath, why they supported state laws requiring proof of citizenship to vote.
Civil rights groups have argued that those laws, passed last year, are racially discriminatory. The Biden administration has also filed a separate lawsuit.
Toma and Petersen, meanwhile, have defended the laws from legal challenges after the state’s governor and attorney general refused to do so.
A federal district court judge ordered Toma and Petersen to sit for depositions explaining their reasons for defending the law.
A federal judge tossed out the state laws in September on the grounds that federal laws control proof-of-citizenship mandates.
The case has not gone into effect or to trial, but it could potentially have significant ramifications in a swing state going into the 2024 presidential election.
The lawsuits included a coalition of civil, political, and voting groups including Mi Familia Vota, Living United for Change in Arizona, the national and state Democratic Party, and three other individuals.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: interupt42
Too busy prepping
A former Trump administration official has claimed “it’s certainly possible” the Chinese government killed a Wuhan scientist who may have caused the COVID pandemic by secretly working on a vaccine months before the global health crisis broke out.
Dr. Robert Kadlec, who served as an official in the biodefense and epidemic response departments during the pandemic, said Chinese military scientist Dr. Zhou Yusen was conducting research on live animals at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2019, and filed a patent for a COVID vaccine in February 2020 — barely one month after China put Wuhan into a lockdown due to the first outbreak.
Three months later, Zhou died when he allegedly fell from the roof of the Wuhan Institute.
“It looked like he was censored as a consequence of whatever happened,” Kadlec told Australia’s Sky News.
originally posted by: PokeyJoe
a reply to: interupt42
not the best business model to create a site to sell QAnon merch, years after all the hype has died down over it, no?