Posted on 03/12/2012 12:39:19 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
Madison - A Dane County judge permanently enjoined the state's new voter ID law on Monday - the second judge in a week to block the requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls.
"A government that undermines the very foundation of its existence - the people's inherent, pre-constitutional right to vote - imperils its legitimacy as a government by the people, for the people, and especially of the people," said the eight-page opinion by Dane County Judge Richard Niess. "It sows the seeds for its own demise as a democratic institution. This is precisely what 2011 Wisconsin Act 23 does with its photo ID mandates."
Niess' ruling goes further than the one issued by another judge last week because it permanently halts the law. Tuesday's order by Dane County Judge David Flanagan blocked the law for the April 3 presidential primary and local elections, but not beyond that.
The latest order may make it harder for the state to put the voter ID law into effect before the April 3 election because it would have to win two appeals in less than four weeks. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has asked for a stay of the earlier order, and he is expected to appeal it this week.
Kevin Kennedy, director of the state Government Accountability Board, said his election agency is telling local clerks to keep training to implement the law so they're prepared to do so if it's suddenly restored.
"We'll just live with what is there," Kennedy said.
Whether Wisconsin's photo ID law will stand is widely considered to be decided by a higher court - a point the judge in the case made from the bench during a hearing Friday. There are four lawsuits pending against it - two in Dane County court and two...
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SCOTUS has already upheld Indiana’s photo ID law.
Thanks justiceseeker93.
I don’t get the logic. A person has to register to vote. When they go to the polls the poll watcher is supposed to check their name against the list of registered voters. So what’s wrong with asking them to prove they are the person that registered?
Why is it Unconstitutional to demand Phot I.D. when Voting?
but we are all required by Federal Law to present a Photo I.D. when seeing our Doctors and attempting to get all other Medical Attention????????????? Oh, I got it!!!
The Demorats beleive they couldn’t get all the Illegal Votes they depend on in an ethical Fair environment!!!
On what date was that Ruling handed down? I didn’t see a date given in the article.
We’re in the middle of a revolution, that’s the actual problem.
You should see what they are doing to election law in WA State.
We have mail in voting, but they are discussing a bill which would allow same day registration. Then, they are discussing a bill which would allow any member of a minority to call for an election to be over turned if they feel that their rights were compromised by open district voting. Of course we have open district voting because the left insisted that it was unfair to minorities to have it any other way.
I call it, “The heads the Democrats win, tails the Republicans lose, voting act.”
We’re in the middle of a revolution and unless and until some Rs who can do something about it start doing something, it’s going to get very vicious in the not too far away future. Because a lot of ordinary citizens will finally not get pushed any more. Like pushed into ravines.
So, do these judges feel the same about buying a gun? When will they strike down the requirement to show ID to buy one at a gun store? Or do we have double standards by idiot justices on Civil Rights?
Well? all I’m hearing is crickets from the left...
Yes.
April 28, 2008. The opinion is here: http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/07-21.pdf
(It is weird that there’s hardly any clue in the article as to the date)
Yes! we are in the middle of a revolution....the enemy is in the wire, on our shores and We the People have a job to do...the greatest effort of our lives.
Will we stand up and be counted in mind and body to answer this call? And then how do we answer the call.
They could become rich as well if they would get off their fat asses and go to work.
I have a simple solution. Put a bounty on em.
Ummmm.. Eric Holder is Satan? 0bama is just the front man for the REAL change.
If requiring a photo ID to exercise a right (to vote) is unconstitutional then requiring a photo ID to keep and bear arms should also be automatically deemed unconstitutional.
Thank you so much for the confirmation date of April 28, 2008!
Why four years later is the Department of Justice saying FU! to SCOTUS!!! a ruling made on April 28, 2008??
Is there any American Law that the Obama HUSSEIN Regime will not trample, ignore, and willfully VIOLATE in their Destruction of AMERICA!!
THIS IS HIGH TREASON OF THE NINTH DEGREE!! This Scum Bag in the Oval Office s the Biggest Fraud and Criminal in the History of this PLANET!! and he is laughing his Gay BUTT off over our Political Correctness and Stupidity!!
There is NO DOCUMENT ABOUT HIS ENTIRE HISTORY THAT IS NOT HIDDEN, OBFUSCATED, and or DISAPPEARED!!! THATS CRIMINAL!! and BULLSHIT!!
Dan Rather tried to fry George W. Bush on one minor paragraph memo that turned out to be A blatant fraud that got RATHER FREAKIN FIRED!!
WAKE UP AMERICA! This isn’t a discussion, the Left are Communists and Worse that are hell Bent on Destroying America! They HATE AMERICA’S FREEDOMS and OUR SUCCESS!
Didn’t I just read tho, here on FR that the Supreme Court ruled States had the right to demand ID to vote, or did I read it wrong?
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