Jared Pettinato
@Jared_Pettinato
Executive Director of @Const_Integrity, lawyer, democracy, rule of law, science, author of Beyond Parties. #StopTheClimateCrisis #Enforcethe14th
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http://www.JaredPettinato.com 26-07-2015 23:56:59
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Jared Pettinato But the district court (a 3 judge panel) threw the case out on standing. Essentially it said we don’t know if the plaintiff would win. Therefore, no standing.
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Jared Pettinato As for the merits, he argued certain states had denied people the right to vote through various laws, such as voter ID. Now, you may violently disagree with that point. But that shouldn’t affect standing. Again, the Census didn’t even look at Section 2, let alone apply it.
Jared Pettinato Jared did everything right to get the case to the merits. He ingeniously used the APA to challenge the Census’s failure to apply Section 2. It’s uncontested they didn’t (indeed, it’s uncontested Section 2 has been ignored since 1870).
Just like Section 3 it’s still in the Constitution. It’s broad: “when the right to vote…is…in any way abridged”. But it’s never been enforced. So my buddy Jared Pettinato brought a case about it regarding the 2020 Census. Here’s a profile from 2022.
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Citizens for Ethics, excellent work! We'll see what we can do about enforcing the 14th Amendment, Section 2.