Category Archives: voter id
“Voter-ID Actions Push Fight Past November; Supreme Court Lets Texas Apply Restrictions for Midterms, but Legality Hasn’t Been Decided”
Brent Kendall reports for WSJ.
Justice Ginsburg Tells Nina Totenberg About 5 AM Texas Voter ID Decision
From this event at the 92nd Street Y [my transcription, and there could be errors]:
Nina Totenberg: Justice Ginsburg, you were up until … Friday night/Saturday morning, writing a passionate dissent in the Texas voter id case. Just to let… Continue reading
“SCOTUS to Texas: Go Forth and Discriminate Against Your Citizens Starting Monday”
“In Judge’s Footnote, a Heavy Slap at Texas’ Past”
Ross Ramsey:
Strange things show up in the footnotes of federal court rulings.
Consider this one in a ruling by a federal judge in Corpus Christi, Tex., that the state’s voter photo ID law is unconstitutional: “The Texas… Continue reading
Explaining Justice Breyer’s Surprising (Non-)Vote in the Texas Voter ID Case
Justice Breyer did not join in Justice Ginsburg’s fiery 6-page dissent in the Texas voter id case the Supreme Court just decided. The majority let Texas’s law go into effect, despite a final judgment from a federal district court finding… Continue reading
“Voter ID Laws and Partisan Competition in the American States”
I missed this new paper from William Hicks, Seth McKee, Mitchell Sellers, and Daniel Smith.
The abstract:
We undertake a comprehensive examination of restrictive voter ID legislation in the American states from 2001 through 2012. With a dataset containing approximately… Continue reading
Coverage of and Reactions to the SCOTUS TX Voter ID Ruling
Dahlia Lithwick on the Arkansas ID Decision
The subhead reads “How an 1865 ruling in favor of Confederate soldiers just protected the vote for minorities in Arkansas.” Like all of Dahlia’s columns, worth a read. Not just because it’s spicy.
“A Look at the Battles Over Voter ID Raging in Courtrooms Across America”
The Blaze provides a summary, through Hans von Spakovsky’s eyes.
And Now, a Ruling on Texas ID
And, of course, we’ve now got a SCOTUS ruling on Texas ID. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, the Court refused to vacate the 5th Circuit’s stay.
In real-person, that means that despite a full trial leading… Continue reading
Texas ID documents at the Supreme Court
A redacted version of Texas’s response to the planitiffs’ application for vacating the 5th Circuit’s stay, and a reply here from some of the plaintiffs. The inimitable Lyle Denniston, as always, has more at SCOTUSblog.
We’re now waiting on word… Continue reading
“Voter ID Facts and Motivation: Easterbrook v. Posner”
Bauer finds the difference between Judges Easterbrook and Posner (and the difference between Crawford and the instant Wisconsin struggle) to be their consideration of legislative motive.
Maybe. But I think there’s (perhaps also) a difference between the quality of the… Continue reading
“As Courts Debate Voter ID, Election Workers Prepare for Both Outcomes”
And Texas election officials are hedging their bets.