{"id":277880,"date":"2016-11-08T00:26:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-supreme-court-rejects-democrats-voter-intimidation-dispute-in-ohio\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T23:26:11","slug":"us-supreme-court-rejects-democrats-voter-intimidation-dispute-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-supreme-court-rejects-democrats-voter-intimidation-dispute-in-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court rejects Democrats\u2019 voter intimidation dispute in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Supreme Court has denied a request by Democrats to allow watchers in Ohio to prevent what they call Election Day voter intimidation by Republicans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ohio Democrats had lodged a complaint that the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his ally Roger Stone were seeking to engage in \u201charassing or intimidating conduct\u201d at the polls on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Following their complaint, US District Judge James Gwin issued an order on Friday, warning that anyone who hinders or delays a prospective voter from reaching the polling place and casting a ballot inside or near Ohio polling places would face contempt-of-court charges.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Cincinnati-based 6th US Circuit Court of appeals removed the restrictions that Gwin had put in place, with its three-judge panel saying that Ohio Democrats did not show \u201ca likelihood of success\u201d on their case&#8217;s merits.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party then told the US Supreme Court that the appellate judges&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/11\/07\/492615\/US-election-Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court has denied a request by Democrats to allow watchers in Ohio to prevent what they call Election Day voter intimidation by Republicans. Ohio Democrats had lodged a complaint that the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his ally Roger Stone were seeking to engage in \u201charassing or intimidating conduct\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}