Summary
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, was compelled by a court order to release the names of about 218,000 voters to lawyers representing right-wing activists.
The appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision, which requires disclosing voter information due to a coding error that incorrectly classified some voters’ ballot access.
Fontes, who expressed serious concerns over potential harassment and violence against these voters, unsuccessfully tried to block the request.
The court ruled that Fontes had not provided sufficient proof that releasing the list posed a danger to voters.
Will he have enough proof after people on the list find threats in their mailboxes, their houses catching on fire, their car’s tires slashed?
Oh, they won’t do anything as crass as that.
They’ll just kill 'em.
If someone is harmed an enormous lawsuit against the state will follow and the reputation of the court and judge will collapse.
Welcome to sovereign immunity
But that will have already been too late. The information will be out there, intimidation and silencing of people in fear will do it’s job and keep them quiet, and out of polling booths.
We keep talking about reputations of courts and judges, “legitimacy”, but I’m just not seeing it matter.
That’s part of the fall into fascism. We can hopefully head that off today.
Kick the can*
That will all just be ruled coincidence and unrelated.