Full Avenatti 35-count indictment is out, and it is…something. Wow. He could get as much as 335 years if convicted on all counts (He won’t get nearly that even if, but that should provide an idea for how serious the charges against him are.)
What an absolute sidewalk fecal smear of a human being Avenatti appears to be.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in a first-of-its-kind decision, ruled that marking a car’s tires to gather information is a form of trespass requiring a warrant, similar to police attaching a GPS to a vehicle to track a suspected drug dealer.
I’m not at all sure that argument works. The number of male citizens becomes important only in the case that a state is denying the right to vote in Federal elections for male citizens 21 years or older. Since no state denies that right, the number is irrelevant. In any event, isn’t it a bit anachronistic, since it applied at a time when women weren’t guaranteed the vote, and 18-year-olds weren’t guaranteed the vote?
It’s part of the Constitution, so it still applies whether we like it or not. It’s also been (implicitly) amended subsequently, so we now need to know the number of 18+ year old citizens, male and female.
I’m also not convinced by the counterargument that all states are currently in compliance. It would only take an act of Congress and an act of the Alabama state legislature to restrict the vote in Alabama to people who earn at least $1 million a year.
What are the odds of the GOP trying to pull a stunt like that? I suspect the main thing standing in their way is the immediate loss of representation mandated by the 14th amendment.