(Photo via Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; a selfie if you will.)
Judge Mark Warner wrote that the Florida Legislature's recent restriction laws on voting were "Orwellian." The Legislature in essence wrote statutes that referred to restrictions on voting as 'freedom,' and that referred to taking the right to vote away from some people as liberation.
The vote of two judges in Atlanta on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals was also "Orwellian." They voted to reverse Judge Warner and to reinstate the restrictions.
The reaction of the corporate media was also Orwellian. The reporting described the two judges as "appointed by Republican presidents." One of the two judges was appointed by The Grievance Guy. She is easily marked ahead of a decision, at least outside of corporate media, for how she will almost certainly vote in cases involving rights such as the right to vote, this case among the rest. The other judge made recent headlines for un-judge-like behavior of travelling to California – why California, you ask, when this judge sits in Atlanta and the Eleventh Circuit covers Florida, Alabama, and Georgia – but not California – and he too is well-known.
When is the corporate media going to report news of the world as it is, not as they pretend it is? When are they going to stop writing with Orwellian descriptions? These are not ordinary times, these are not ordinary judges, and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals is not an ordinary court. What they do should be reported accurately, not with blinders.
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