Federal Judge Michael Liburdi will not approve an emergency order to stop ballot drop box monitors from gathering outside Arizona voter locations.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi will not approve an emergency injunction to stop ballot drop box monitors from gathering outside Arizona voter locations.
"While there are serious questions implicated, the Court cannot provide preliminary injunctive relief without infringing core constitutional rights," he wrote."A preliminary injunction cannot issue on these facts, but Arizona Alliance is invited to return to this Court with any new evidence that Defendants have engaged in unlawful voter intimidation."
"There's no evidence that they intend to express any understandable message," Attorney David Fox said in court. True threats are not protected free speech in the United States, and Fox argued that Jennings' rights couldn't be trampled in this case because her speech was threatening. But Liburdi said Jennings hasn't made any statement"threatening to commit acts of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals."
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