Posted on 03/23/2015 6:45:35 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a new Republican-backed law in Wisconsin that requires voters to present photo identification when they cast ballots.
The court declined to hear an appeal filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged the law.
Hooray! This is really, really important to take this country back — require honesty in voting.
It means now it can go into force for the 2016 election.
Which will cut down on vote fraud.
It means now it can go into force for the 2016 election.
Which will cut down on vote fraud.
hopefully a harbinger of things to come in GOP led states as well as the supreme court...
obamites need to embrace reality. it’s the law of the land.
Yes, I hope it spreads — the idea that voters need to demonstrate who they are. What a concept.
Oh, the wailing and the gnashing of teeth in Madistan today!
This is a very important victory.
Does this automatically overrule all those other decisions by federal judges who have thrown out other states registrations laws?
Well, it looks like the Left is now out of friends in black robes to thwart the will of the people. It’s now a done deal.
Wow, this and Ted Cruz’ announcement are really starting this week off on good notes.
This would really be useful if it applied to Minnesota.
Would have been nice to have it in effect for the State Supreme Court election in early April.
Oh well.
They’d protest at the capitol but it’s cold and snowy today
Ping to PJ in case he ISN’T trolling on DU for his DUmmie FUnnies.
This story will have a multitude of Dhimicrat touchstones: rayciss, electoral-college, true-the-vote hysteria and [EGADS!] Scott Walker; just to mention a few.
I’d ping Charles but, he is neck-deep in Lent right now.
So what made this one different from the other acts that the courts have struck down?
Good decision! Now, watch the Obama regime go all-in for drivers license/ID for illegal aliens.
I can’t be sure right now...I’ll need to read the declination (usually very simple) and then determine the genesis of the SCOTUS case.
It looks (to me) like:
If genesis is from the appellate court (Region 6?) then it applies only to the States in those regions with “exactly” the same VID laws. My guess is that only WI has this law-language and thereby is only valid for WI.
MI has a VID law also under consideration at ^some^ court level I think(yet still within the same appellate court region). I don’t believe it is the same law, linguistically, so, this non-decision may not impact the MI law or status of that court review.
Indiana has been approved, other States in the appellate district are either moving toward legislation or (ILL) doing nothing at all.
I pinged JPB for his knowledge of the several court (Fed/Appellate/State/, etc.) districts.
Noata bene: I R NOT a lawyer.
Hopefully this will end the anti-voter ID nonsense in other states too.
Congrats, Wisconsin.
So, I went to bed last night and today I wake up in a parallel universe.
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