Here is my analysis of the district court order. 3. Both the constitutional law and VRA section 2 claims are controversial.  On the con law point, the judge purports to apply the “Anderson-Burdick” balancing test that the Supreme Court applied… Continue reading

Journal-Sentinel: Appeals panel questions why voter ID shouldn’t be in place Nov. 4 Attorneys representing groups that successfully sued over Wisconsin’s voter ID law came in for tough questioning Friday before a panel of three federal judges, with Judge Diane… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

Important Richard Wolf report from USA Today.

Dahlia Lithwick writes for Slate, citing Michael Gilbert’s new article.

Brennan Center report from the trial [with language updated from the Brennan Center]; Under cross-examination by Dan Freeman, [Victor Farinelli, the electronic registration manager of the Department of State Health Services’ Vital Statistics Unit] testified that there is no law… Continue reading