Florida's Gov. Rick Scott loses another one in court, voter suppression charged by Federal Judge.

Not only did AG Eric Holder tell Gov. Rick Scott's to halt voter purging tactics, but a federal judge blocked a get out the vote law being used to suppress voters. Is this the freedom and liberty Republicans were talking about? Doesn't sound much like a democratic republic anymore. Yet not a peep out of those tea party pocket constitutionalists.

Brad Blog: A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the "key provisions of a restrictive voting law in Florida today." The new law, H.B. 1355, had included onerous criminal restrictions on third-party voter registration workers. The new rules were so onerous, in fact, that the League of Women Voters of Florida was forced to call off their registration drive in the state for the first time in 70 years. In the wake of the FL GOP's new law, high school teachers had been charged with crimes for registering their own students to vote, and a registration worker had received a threatening letter from the Sec. of State for turning in voter registrations one hour late after a holiday weekend.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Hinkle blocked most of the FL law's new registration requirements today, finding they accomplished little more than suppressing the registration of new voters without serving any legitimate state interest. "If the goal is to discourage voter-registration drives and thus also to make it harder for new voters to register, this may work," wrote Hinkle in his frequently scathing decision [PDF].