It’s a presidential election year, so Ohio Republicans are up to their usual dirty tricks. Whether the feds will stop them from stealing the election this year is still up in the air:
Judge Peter Economus has set a hearing for September 13 to address Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s refusal to comply with the court’s ruling that the state must allow early voting on the three days leading up to the general election. Economus released a terse order Wednesday afternoon: “The Court ORDERS that Defendant Secretary of State Jon Husted personally attend the hearing.” The Obama campaign filed a motion earlier Wednesday asking the court to make Husted give way.
This ought to be good. Husted must be wetting his pants right now since Gov. Kasich and the republican party are offering him no cover. He’s on his own, as his party’s ideological motto states.
There is no federal precedent for intervening in the State’s conduct of an election. Bush v Gore