“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.
Category Archives: voter id
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
“Former judge provides ‘cold comfort’ on voter ID law”
IndyStar on Judge Posner (who, despite the title, is still a judge)
“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
“TN Supreme Court Upholds ID Law”
WBIR: “Chief Justice Gary R. Wade wrote that, although instances of people impersonating voters at the polls have not been documented in Tennessee.”
Read the City of Memphis, Tenn. v. Hargett Opinion authored by Chief Justice Gary R. Wade,… Continue reading
Justice Stevens Defends Voter ID Decision Based on Evidence Before Him
Jess Bravin asked Justice Stevens if he stands by his decision in Crawford, the Indiana voter id decision, in light of Judge Posner’s recent comments saying he got the case wrong:
In an interview this week, Justice Stevens said he… Continue reading
“Thoughts on Judge Posner’s Admission of Error on the Indiana Voter ID Law”
Paul Smith: “As the lawyer who argued the constitutional challenge to the Indiana Voter ID law in the Supreme Court in 2008, I was both fascinated and pleased to hear that Judge Richard Posner – the author of the… Continue reading
“Second Thoughts on Voter ID”
NYT Editorial on Posner.
“Judge in Landmark Case Disavows Support for Voter ID”
NYT’s John Schwartz: “It is the kind of thought that rarely passes the lips of a member of the federal judiciary: I was wrong.”
My earlier coverage of Judge Posner’s comments are here and here.
When Judge Posner’s… Continue reading
“Poll: Americans support fine-tuning election policy”
USA Today:
A nationwide USA TODAY/Bipartisan Policy Center poll finds a majority of Americans support a range of proposals aimed at easing hyper-partisanship and building confidence in elections. Some command the sort of broad bipartisan backing rare in national… Continue reading