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The court ruled that Fontes had not provided sufficient proof that releasing the list posed a danger to voters.
(24 hours later)
Holy crap! They're going after the voters! Nobody could have seen this coming!
A reasonable court would have said “that’s a totally legitimate concern” and maybe suggested options for reviewing election integrity concerns without exposing PII to third parties.
This court would probably have waved off public statements by neo-nazis that they would hunt these people for sport as “insufficient cause for concern.”
Release the names of every single person in the righrwing group. Its only fair.
It's nowhere near as far. The odds of someone on the right intimidating voters because of a foreign looking last name has been proven to be near 1 whereas there are no reported instances of the left doing the same.
There are no "both sides" on this issue. Only one side who wants to hurt the other.
You know the saying; be the change you want to see in the world. Get out there and start punching some Nazis for sport.
So if right wing nuts target the voters it will be treated as premeditated, right?
Of course not. They're just lone wolfs who had a bad day.
Did he try gesturing broadly at the general situation as proof?
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.
That will all just be ruled coincidence and unrelated.
If someone is harmed an enormous lawsuit against the state will follow and the reputation of the court and judge will collapse.
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*
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.
From the wording it sounds like it wasn't made public, just presented to the lawyers. It's similar to how jehovah witnesses tried to pierce anononimity for the antijw reddit posters to identify defendants in a copyright lawsuit and the judge said something akin to "It's understandable that you don't want your name publicly associated with this post, but the court system imparts trust on lawyers to act as good stewards of this information and so plaintiffs council may have access to your identity." If this information is leaked they should be disbarred on the spot for mishandling the data.
I would hope so.
Hopefully the appeals court judges are on the list.
I am curious why he didn’t appeal the ruling further.