Two Election Law Cases Lead off @SCOTUSBlog’s Petitions to Watch List for Mar. 20 Conference

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14-803

Issue: (1) Whether a state’s voter ID law violates the Equal Protection Clause where, unlike in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, the evidentiary record establishes that the law substantially burdens the voting rights of hundreds of thousands of the state’s voters, and that the law does not advance a legitimate state interest; and (2) whether a state’s voter ID law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act where the law disproportionately burdens and abridges the voting rights of African-American and Latino voters compared to White voters.

14-779

Issue: Whether and to what extent false statements of fact, which are designed to deceive voters, are protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.

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