Category Archives: voter id
Reactions to TX (and Sometimes WI) Decision
Reports from AP, HuffPo, LA Times, MSNBC, NPR, NY Times, Politico, Reuters, USA Today, Wall St. Journal.
And from the plaintiffs’ counsel — Brennan Center, CLC, and LDF… Continue reading
The Least-covered Impact of the Texas ID Decision
It creates some extra work for Google. More specifically, the programmers who have added state-based information on ID requirements in each state to searches about the voting process may have a fair amount of updating to do in these final… Continue reading
Not All “Purcell Problems” Are Alike
Rick says that tonight’s TX ID case (which does, indeed, enter a permanent injunction against the ID law – on pp. 142-143 of the opinion) creates a huge Purcell problem. I’m not so sure.
To be clear, I can understand… 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
BREAKING: Federal Court Strikes TX ID Law
Texas-sized news out of the Lone Star State. A federal court has struck down Texas’s voter ID law. It violates the Voting Rights Act, it violates the constitutional prohibition on poll taxes, it violates the constitutional prohibition of unjustified burdens,… 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
Right Questions, Wrong Answers in Voter ID Decision
Prof. Chris Elmendorf, over at the Election Law @ Moritz site, dives deep on the 7th Circuit’s WI voter ID decision. It begins:
Earlier this week Rick Hasen blasted Judge Easterbook’s opinion upholding Wisconsin’s voter ID requirement as… Continue reading
Roundup on the GAO Report on Voter ID
Politico, Natl Journal, the Wall St. Journal, and the Washington Times discuss the GAO report; Sec. Kobach responds.
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
“State Voting Laws in Legal Limbo”
What’s Up With the Texas Voter ID Case?
Back on September 22, when the federal district court in Corpus Christi heard closing arguments in the case arguing that Texas’s strict voter id law violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause and the Voting Rights Act’s section 2, I wrote… Continue reading
Breaking: WI Voter ID Challengers File New Stay Request at #SCOTUS
This new request from the challengers to Wisconsin’s voter id law seeks a stay of the judgment on the merits issued by the 7th Circuit while the first stay request was pending before the Supreme Court. (Here is my analysis… Continue reading