What I was waiting for

I wanted to wait on posting about the 9th Circus ruling voiding the Washington state law forbidding felons from voting until word came down from this guy about what’s next.

Washington state will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to overturn a surprising federal-court ruling that tossed out the state’s 120-year-old prohibition against voting by incarcerated felons, Attorney General Rob McKenna said Wednesday.

The ruling, handed down Tuesday by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, found that Washington’s criminal-justice system was so “infected” with racial discrimination that a ban on felon voting violated civil-rights protections.

The state hoped to have the case heard during the U.S. Supreme Court’s fall session, McKenna told reporters at a hastily arranged news conference at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Meanwhile, the state also plans to file by next week a motion to stall enactment of the court ruling. McKenna said courts routinely grant such motions if a case is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Rob McKenna was one of the best things about Washington State even before he told Nickels to put his gun ban where the sun doesn’t shine. He is also currently the #2 guy on the research group of state AG’s looking into the constitutionality of “Bribery Ben” Nelson’s Cornhusker Kickback.

Those are just a couple of the good things he’s done while in office. He will follow this to the end and get the problem taken care of.

And if/when he runs for Governor in 2012 he will gladly have my vote. If I were in Chicago instead of Tacoma, he’d have the votes of four of my dead relatives.

I have, at times, called him the Rain God because he regularly rains on the left’s parade.

Also, Douglas Adams named him as such.