“A Judge Sees the Light on ‘Voter Fraud’ Laws”
Jamelle Bouie writes for The Daily Beast.
I’ve got my own more extended piece on Judge Posner in the works.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“The Cost of a Two-Tiered Election in Arizona”
“Errors on Indiana Voter ID Case”
Professor Fran Quigley on Judge Posner and Justice Stevens recent comments about the lawyering in Crawford.
“North Carolina Governor Previews Defense Of Voter ID Law”
TPM reports.
You can find North Carolina’s answer in the NAACP case here [link fixed]. Apparently there is no separate motion to dismiss as I had understood and posted about yesterday.
Charles Lane on Judge Posner on Voter ID
Lane: “Some critics of voter ID laws may revel in Posner’s confession. I wish he’d kept his mouth shut. Not because I’m a fan of voter ID laws — I’m not — but because Posner’s casual mea culpa is… Continue reading
“NC officials ask court to dismiss elections law challenges”
The News and Observer reports. If anyone has the motion to dismiss, please pass it along and I will post it.
Voter ID and the 19th Amendment
Jost on Posner on Voter ID
Here.
Bauer on Whelan on Judge Posner on Voter ID
“In North Carolina, a Democratic state official speaks out”
LA Times:
Roy Cooper is in a very lonely place. He’s a Democratic state attorney general surrounded by conservative Republicans who control North Carolina state government.
Now those Republicans have put Cooper in an awkward spot. He has publicly condemned… Continue reading
“Former judge provides ‘cold comfort’ on voter ID law”
IndyStar on Judge Posner (who, despite the title, is still a judge)
“Voting fight: Is it race or is it politics?”
Charlotte Observer:
North Carolina’s new restrictions on voting may favor the Republican Party, but Democrats must prove more than that to beat them in court.
GOP legislators who passed the rules last summer say they are designed to streamline… Continue reading
“Judge Posner’s Weak Mea Culpa”
Ed Whelan:
By contrast, one has to wonder what underlies his assertion in his book some six years later that he got it wrong. The few words he writes—that the law “was a type of law now widely regarded… Continue reading
“Judge denies injunction in voter lawsuit brought by Democrats”
Times-Dispatch: “A federal judge has rejected a request from Virginia Democrats who want the State Board of Elections to reinstate nearly 40,000 voters who were recently purged from the voter rolls.”