DL Open Thread: Friday, April 1, 2022

Not a big fan of April Fool’s posts.  This will not be one of them. At least, not on purpose. Fools, however, will almost inevitably be present.

Did Everybody See The First Semi-Expose Of Ft. DuPont In Mainstream Media?  If not, you have now.  While it doesn’t revisit the early years when disgraced former State Rep. Dick Cathcart was given unfettered access to the purse-strings, it’s really good.  BTW, WDEL has made it really difficult to find on the current webpage.  Had to cut-‘n-paste from yesterday’s Open Thread.

Federal Judge Hands Down Sweeping Rejection Of Florida’s Anti-Voting Rights Laws.  Great news, except–surely some Trump judges somewhere will overturn this decision:

Saying that “Florida has a grotesque history of racial discrimination,” a federal district judge struck down most of a controversial election law passed in the state last year, and said the state can’t make any major changes to election regulations for the next 10 years unless a judge clears them first.

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker agreed with voters who sued the state that the bill “runs roughshod over the right to vote, unnecessarily making voting harder for all eligible Floridians, unduly burdening disabled voters, and intentionally targeting minority voters — all to improve the electoral prospects of the party in power.”

Walker said that for the next decade, changes to voting laws that affect third-party registration efforts, drop boxes or “line warming” — in which volunteers offer water or chairs to people waiting in line to vote — must be approved first by the court.