“Texas Voter ID Law Ensnares Former Speaker of the House, Candidates for Governor, State Judge”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
Category Archives: voter id
“Wisconsin Voter ID Trial Begins”
Politico:
Voter ID advocates and opponents alike will be watching Wisconsin on Monday as a new federal trial on the state’s photo ID law begins.
The case is the first federal trial under the Voting Rights Act since the… Continue reading
DGA Gets “Pants on Fire” by Politifact for Claim Texas Voter ID Law Intended to Disenfranchise Women
Former House Speaker Jim Wright Has Trouble Getting Voter ID in Texas: The Lesson Behind It
This seems to me to be the key point—why Republicans like ID and Democrats fear it:
While Wright will be able to vote, Ritchson worried that others of his age may find the obstacles and inconvenience she and Wright encountered… Continue reading
“Voter ID update: the diversity in the details”
“State voter ID laws snare women with name changes”
“Carl Leubsdorf: Judge’s reversal affirms fallacies of voter ID law”
“Judge Posner and Judicial Humility”
“Taking Heat for Doing What’s Right”
Ruth Greenwood on Judge Posner.
“The Part that Judge Posner Got Right—the Perils of Forecasting in the Regulation of the Political Process”
Bob Bauer blogs. Interesting list contained therein of what Bob says are predictions about McCain-Feingold which have not proven true.
“Texas AG Will Have To Sign Affidavit To Vote”
(I Hope My) Last Posner Post of the Night
Ari Melber video interview with Judge Posner.
Around the 6-minute mark, Judge Posner talks about the voter id controversy. “Since [my opinion in 2007],…there’s been a lot of writing about these [voter id] laws, and there seems to be a… Continue reading
Judge Posner and the Hokey Pokey Principle
Will Baude: “Posner’s ‘About Face’ on Crawford Continues Turning About”
Not sure either Ed Whelan or I are using this as a “hook” for blogging—whatever that means.
Judge Posner Splits Hairs Ever More Finely
He tells the WSJ:
In context, with particular reference to what I said after “yes, absolutely,” my point was that we judges in the Crawford case did not have sufficient information about the consequences of an Indiana-type photo ID… Continue reading