You can read the brief here. No word yet that I have seen whether Ohio will go to the Supreme Court to seek a stay of the district court’s order which the 6th Circuit denied on Friday. As Chris … Continue reading

Very strong NYT editorial against the last-minute 7th Circuit order to try to implement Wisconsin voter id on the fly. We are still awaiting word if there will be an emergency motion to the Supreme Court.

“We’re the Ping-Pong ball on the table.” —Diane Hermann-Brown, the clerk for the City of Sun Prairie, WI, on changing WI voter id rules.

Jesse Wegman on Wisconsin voter id decision, in NYT’s “Taking Note” Ed blog, quoting my blog post from Friday: Rick Hasen, a professor of election law at the University of California, Irvine, called the decision a “big, big mistake… Continue reading

Journal Sentinel NYT AP Bloomberg Reuters PR Watch Awaiting word whether plaintiffs will seek to reimpose the stay either with the entire 7th Circuit en banc or SCOTUS.

You can read the order here. From the order: After the district court’s decision, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin revised the procedures to make it easier for persons who have difficulty affording any fees to obtain the birth certificates… Continue reading

AP reports.

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.