Posted on 03/23/2015 4:47:58 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Great news for those interested in election integrity and common sense reforms like voter ID: the Supreme Court today removed the final legal obstacle to implementing Wisconsin’s voter ID law.
The Court refused to hear the American Civil Liberties Union’s appeal of a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision that threw out the injunction issued against the state’s ID law by federal district court Judge Lynn Adelman.
Adelman, a Clinton appointee and former Democratic state senator, had thumbed his nose at the Supreme Court, claiming that he did not have to follow the Court’s prior 2008 opinion in Crawford v. Marion County upholding Indiana’s almost identical voter ID law. Adelman made the astonishing claim that Crawford was “not binding precedent.”
In a withering decision written by Judge Frank Easterbrook on Oct. 6, 2014, the Seventh Circuit rejected Adelman’s reasoning and threw out his injunction. Easterbrook painstakingly dissected all of the errors in Adelman’s analysis, including his refusal to follow precedent. As Easterbrook said, “Crawford requires us to reject a constitutional challenge to Wisconsin’s statute.”
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily stayed the Seventh Circuit’s ruling just prior to the November election, leaving Adelman’s injunction in place, but only until the Court made a decision on whether to grant a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the ACLU. It was clear that the Court did not want the status quo in Wisconsin changed just before the election since it might be disruptive for voters and election officials unfamiliar with the new ID requirements.
With the Court’s rejection today of the ACLU’s petition, Judge Easterbrook’s decision stands, and the injunction has gone where it should be—into the trash bin of history and bad legal decisions.
Since the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a similar challenge to the voter ID law filed in state court last year in Milwaukee Branch of NAACP v. Walker, Wisconsin now joins numerous other states like Georgia, Indiana and South Carolina that have implemented a photo ID requirement for voting and most importantly, have beaten opponents of such a requirement in the courts.
Complete explanation of the saga of the Wisconsin photo voter ID law and Lynn Adelman’s dirty fingerprings that are all over the reason we have not been able to use it for the past 3 years.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
I looked outside and checked.
The sky has not fallen.
The Children are running and laughing.
The Birds are signing a happy tune.
This is great, unless you’re a Democrat who relies on voter fraud to win elections. Their claim of unfairness to minorities in requiring a photo I.D. falls short when such an I.D. is needed to board an airplane, buy beer or cigarettes, get a marriage license, and many other things.
Democrats will lose, if they lose, by 1-2% more in WI now.
Now the ID needs to state the country of citizenship, as sworn to by the holder when the ID is issued, backed up by a supporting document. Once that’s included, non-citizens will be able to be stopped from voting by poll workers and the voting registration lists will be easier to clean up.
Without country of citizenship, I suppose the voter ID requirement would stop people from voting in precincts they’re not registered in, and would stop voting for someone else, but I see nothing that would stop a non-citizen (whether here legally or illegally) from registering to vote and then showing his valid driver’s license and voting.
This may be important in Sen. Johnson’s run for re-election in WI in 2016. That may be a difficult seat to hold, but we have a better chance now.
Fabulous news!
Now let’s see precisely the ‘color’ of Wisconsin.
I’ll wager Red, not blue or the toss-up “purple”!
IL Voters DEMAND Voter ID!
Obamacare requires ID, and they require Obamacare.
BUMP!
Democrats hate photo IDs because skeletons take poor pictures.
Hold off on the victory laps.
Deep Blue CT has had photo voter ID for decades.
It matters not that the people can vote, but who counts the votes.
Every state's ballots by mail program is a shambles. Voters (especially students) cast ballots in several states, death records don't necessarily invalidate voter registrations. When folks leave town, their registrations remain active. This is still a steaming pile of rotting flesh. This is a good start, but the real fraud is done through the mail.
Once we get a real American in the WH we need to start impeaching all these junk judges.
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