2 of 3 Judges on WI 7th Circuit Voter ID Panel Voted Against Plaintifs in IN Voter ID Case; 1 Was Not on Court

The judges chosen are Judges Easterbrook, Sykes, and Tinder. The first two voted against rehearing the Crawford case upholding Indiana’s voter id law.  Judge Tinder joined the court after that case.

Of course, the facts of the two cases are different, and the law is partially different (Crawford raised on an equal protection claim, while this case raises both equal protection and Voting Rights Act section 2 claims). We’ve seen judges can change their mind on this issue. Judge Posner wrote the majority opinion in Crawford, and now has called such laws a means of voter suppression.

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