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Home Front: Politix
Barack Obama praises MLB decision to pull All-Star Game out of Georgia
2021-04-05
[NYPOST] Former President Obama has gone to bat for Major League Baseball, issuing a rare tweet Saturday praising their decision to move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta to protest restrictive new voting laws in the Peach State.

"Congratulations to @MLB for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens. There’s no better way for America’s pastime to honor the great Hank Aaron, who always led by example," the former commander in chief said.

Georgia earned liberal ire last month after Gov. Brian Kemp signed the restrictive new measures into law. The bill requires photo IDs for mail-in voting and forbids bringing food or water to people waiting in voting lines.
AKA: electioneering within 150' of a poll place
Republicans say the law is necessary to curb voter fraud. The issue became a cause célèbre in the state after former President Trump narrowly lost Georgia to Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
 in the 2020 presidential election. Though there is no evidence of widespread fraud influenced the outcome, Georgia and a number of other GOP-controlled states have moved swiftly to tighten up voting anyway
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Posted by:Fred

#7  Biden was asked why he did not ask the PGA to move the Masters.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2021-04-05 14:31  

#6   For the feds to step in and control it will immediately be a SCOTUS undertaking.

The last time the feds, supported by the Supreme Court, intervened in state voting procedures, it was to put an end to discrimination, so if the Democrats can pre-sell the concept that this is more of the same...
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-04-05 14:05  

#5  49 Pan, don't count on the Supreme Court to defend federalism.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2021-04-05 13:13  

#4  Voting has largely been a states rights issue. For the feds to step in and control it will immediately be a SCOTUS undertaking.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2021-04-05 13:02  

#3  What I find interesting is that the Dems seem to lack confidence their own ballot theft bill will ever get through congress and/or Supreme Court because it should make the GA one largely irrelevant.

Or perhaps this is all fight both battles just in case, or just fire up the troops now so that killing the filibuster can be the last desperate attempt to End Jim Crow or something.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2021-04-05 10:20  

#2  Of course he does. Anything to divide America and get us to bicker amongst ourselves s good in this traitors eyes....
Posted by: 49 Pan   2021-04-05 10:04  

#1  Send them to NY to die on thew vine. So stupid the left.
Posted by: Dale   2021-04-05 08:41  

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