The Seattle Times offers this report on yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling in the Washington primary case. Howard Bashman has more links. Bob Bauer asks what happened behind the curtain to explain the result at the Supreme Court. I don’t think it is that much of a mystery. The four dissenters in Jones joined with Justice Thomas, who from the Clingman case had expressed doubts about the associational right and strict scrutiny first set out in Tashjian, to reach this ruling. The hardest to peg is Chief Justice Roberts, and as I indicated yesterday, I thin his vote here setting forth the idea that facial challenges are disfavored, could well be used to uphold the Indiana voter id law in Crawford.