Posted on 10/18/2014 4:44:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Supreme Court said Saturday that Texas can use its controversial new voter identification law for the November election.
The Supreme Court's order was unsigned, as it typically is in these situations. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented, saying they would have left the district court decision in place.
"The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters," Ginsburg wrote in dissent.
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You need to give Orin Hatch a little credit for Buzzy since he informed Clinton that she would sail through his committee, and sure enough she did.
A president has a right to his appointments, unless of course the president is a republican.
In the end if we get voter ID established, they will just move on to a more modern way of cheating, the voting machine.
Alan Keyes was personally effected, but no judge would touch it, none ever will.
Didn’t it strike down other voter registration rules for other states?
A victory for common sense
No, I don’t believe the courts will EVER help to restore the powers/Rights of We the People (they know from whom their bread is buttered).
Our Republic has long been dead.
Long before George Wallace was threatened with arrest, but certainly it was made clear for any who wished to see.
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