Supreme Court upholds Indiana Real ID law:
Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana
By MARK SHERMAN – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights. The decision validates Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
The court vote 6-3 to uphold Indiana’s strict photo ID requirement. Democrats and civil rights groups say the law would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.
Rush just noted this on his program as well.
“Republican-inspired?” Fuck off. Democrats and civil rights groups would give citizenship rights to non-citizens in a heartbeat just to get their votes. Their arguments are ridiculous. Moreso because Justice Stevens wrote the opinion. I wasn’t aware he was a conservative…
(Via.)
UPDATE: The opinion.
JUSTICE STEVENS, joined by THE CHIEF JUSTICE and JUSTICE KENNEDY,
concluded that the evidence in the record does not support a facial
attack on SEA 483’s validity. Pp. 5–20.
and
JUSTICE SCALIA, joined by JUSTICE THOMAS and JUSTICE ALITO, was of the view that petitioners’ premise that the voter-identification lawmight have imposed a special burden on some voters is irrelevant.The law should be upheld because its overall burden is minimal and justified.
Comforting to know that you do indeed have to prove you’re who you say you are at the voting booth…just like you do everywhere else in life.
And nice to see the Dumbs lose again…like they do everywhere else in life.
The supporting opinion was the interesting one. Yeah, it might be a small hassle, get over it. 99% of the whiners already have drivers licenses, the law is there to prevent you from voting early and often, which has always been a Dem tactic.