BREAKING: for months, Ohio's SOS Larose has claimed that he wanted to expand drop boxes in Ohio counties, but that Ohio law prevented him from doing so.
Just now, all three judges in our drop box appeal agreed with us that nothing in Ohio law prevents him from adding more.
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"We agree with the trial court that the Secretary's interpretation of R.C. 3509.05 is not reasonable and that the statute neither prescribes nor prohibits ballot drop boxes at locations other than the boards of elections....
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"...If, as appellees argue, the Secretary wants to permit additional drop boxes, he has the authority to do so and nothing in this decision prohibits him from rescinding Directive 2020-16 and issuing a new directive accordingly."
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Now that the law is clarified....for the third time....as allowing more drop boxes, we call on Frank Larose to make good on his public and private commitment to add drop boxes.
There is still time to add them for the final weeks of this election.
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Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something comes along that still stuns you. That happened to me when I read an update from my friends at this Substack:
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We’ve watched now for months as Republicans at both the federal and state level attack universities for being too woke, too political, too whatever. (And of late, by the way, we are seeing too many of those institutions cave to extortion and shakedowns.)
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But what, pray tell, are these Republicans doing when they take charge of universities?
Well, we have a case study that just keeps getting worse here in Ohio.
Yesterday and today, Trump’s former personal lawyer is meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell.
No doubt trying to win her over and keeping her from further incriminating Trump
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But much worse than the fact that his former personal lawyer is having this conversation….is the fact that this man is having this conversation AS a DOJ lawyer.
And part of the conversation is clearly that he is a dangling a formal pardon as leverage in that conversation.
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That feels as inappropriate as it gets, doesn’t it?
Well, do you want to know the worst part?
It’s that this is exactly what Justice Roberts’ opinion on presidential immunity guided a lawless president to do if he wanted to get away with an illegal coverup.
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You may have heard that Republicans plan to gerrymander both Ohio and Texas in order to gain more seats in the House for the 2026 election.
But have you heard that the only reason they can even do this in Ohio is because the Ohio GOP…
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1) violated the Ohio Constitution seven times
2) defied Ohio Supreme Court orders seven times
3) held consecutive elections on maps that, at the time of those elections, violated the Ohio Constitution per the most recent opinion of the highest court in the state
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4) altered long-standing rules of judicial elections to convert an independent court into a partisan Court to uphold their illegal maps in future
5) manipulated the ballot for judicial races so that court races now appear at the top of the ballot
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It’s easy to see stories and headlines and lose sight of just what’s happening.
So here’s some detail from the ACLU complaint that shows just how bad the LA ICE raids are:
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“One of the clearest patterns that have emerged in the raids in Southern California over the past few weeks has been stops and interrogations based on nothing but broad profiles, including on the basis of apparent race and ethnicity”
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““The manner in which the foregoing raids have been conducted bears no hallmarks of reasonable suspicion: there are no indicia that agents had any specific articulable facts sufficient to justify a seizure.”
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