“Courts Strike Down Voter ID Laws In Texas, Wisconsin”
NPR’s latest, on All Things Considered.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
Josh Douglas on Last-Minute SCOTUS Stays
Focusing on the distinction between stays that allow restrictive laws to go forward and those that keep restrictive laws at bay.
“Elections Board Launches Voter ID Campaign”
In Wisconsin. Funny story…
[Update: This new report describes election clerks’ latest attempts to communicate to voters exactly what voters will need to show.
Of potential relevance to a coming Purcell decision in Texas, in line with my… Continue reading
BREAKING: 7th Circuit Again Splits 5-5 on ID
More breaking news: The 7th Circuit, sitting en banc, just split again 5-5 over whether to review the panel opinion’s decision on the merits. Judge Posner had apparently asked for the vote himself, and wrote 28 pages disagreeing with the… Continue reading
“How to Predict a Voting Rights Decision; The Supreme Court just made it harder to vote in some states and easier in others.”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
If you have been following developments at the Supreme Court in voting cases over the past few weeks, the results have been dizzying and apparently inconsistent. First the court blocked a… Continue reading
The Biggest Aspect of the Texas Case: Texas To Be Covered Again by Section 5 (If Case Stands)
Justin noted a key aspect of the Texas id decision which I want to highlight: “Also extremely important: the court expressly finds intentional discrimination relevant to bail-in under the Voting Rights Act, and says it will consider a bail-in order… Continue reading
Don’t Get Too Excited That #SCOTUS Blocked Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law This Election
I’ve explained why I think the Supreme Court was correct to block Wisconsin’s voter id law for use in this election. There was too much of a risk that the law could not be implemented fairly in time for this… Continue reading
Is Texas ID Law Blocked Now? Should It Be? Would It Stay Blocked?
In my last post, I wrote about the massive opinion in the Texas voter id case that “there is no discussion of whether the actual order will apply to this election and the injunction will stop its use in this… Continue reading
Analysis: Supreme Court Stops Immediate Implementation of WI Voter ID Law; and a Thought on Texas
Here is the order, and judged by the dissent of Justice Alito, joined by Scalia and Thomas, the basis was the Purcell objection, the proximity to the upcoming election and the risk of electoral chaos.
Not only did the apparent … Continue reading
Nothing Yet from SCOTUS on WI Stay
Coming up on 6:30pm ET, and nothing yet today from SCOTUS on either of the applications for a stay of the 7th Circuit’s decisions on WI voter ID. But given yesterday’s late release, the day is apparently still young.
Why Breyer and Kagan Did Not Dissent in NC Voting Case, and What That Tells Us About WI Voter ID Case
Yesterday’s Supreme Court order in the North Carolina voting case (which Justin covered here while I was travelling and which Howard rounds up) reached the result I had been expecting: a reversal of the 4th Circuit order restoring… Continue reading
Breaking News: SCOTUS issues NC order, restrictions back in effect
Sure, just after Rick leaves. Late Wednesday, the Supreme Court stayed the 4th Circuit’s earlier opinion blocking North Carolina’s rollback of same-day registration and its decision to no longer count ballots cast out-of-precinct. Free of the double negatives: the full… Continue reading
“Wisconsin Club for Growth asks full appeals court to reconsider John Doe ruling”
ACLU Flags Judge Easterbrook’s Factual Inaccuracies in Horrendous WI Voter ID Decision
Press release about Judge Easterbrook’s terrible analysis:
The motion filed today also notes factual inaccuracies in the appeals panel’s ruling, including:
“The Seventh Circuit also could not fathom that so many registered Wisconsin voters lack a photo ID ‘in… Continue reading