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Can the Federal Government Challenge DeSantis's "Election Police" [1]
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Date: 2022-08-21
DeSantis’s Brownshirts, a/k/a “Election Police” have arrested 20 people for supposed election offenses, some of them ex-felons who in good faith believed their voting rights had been restored.
The FL “Election Police” is a transparent authoritarian ploy to suppress the vote by intimidating people out of voting or trying to vote.
The 2022 elections in FL are Federal Elections — for Senate and House. Although states have the power to administer elections, there should be some federal jurisdiction over their conduct. Although IAAL, IANACL. (Although I am a lawyer, I am not a Constitutional Lawyer.)
But I have enough knowledge to ask the question whether the federal government can do anything to enjoin or otherwise stop DeSantis’s actions, under the 14the Amendment, the Voting Rights Act or 42 USC 1983 (Civil Action for deprivation of rights) or all of the above.
Marc Elias hasn’t yet answered my tweet, so I’m asking the question to this community.
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