“Outcome of ID-law challenge hard to predict”

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Unfortunately, the article does not make clear a fundamental point I tried to explain to the reporter: Crawford, the U.S. Supreme Court case, was a challenge under the U.S. Constitution.  The Pa. case, like the Wisconsin and Missouri cases, are cases under state constitutions.  State constitutional provisions guaranteeing the right to vote may be stronger (or read differently) than the U.S. constitutional standard in Crawford under the federal equal protection clause.

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