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supreme-court-allows-texas-use-of-new-voter-id-law-1413629101Wall Street Journal:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday allowed Texas to enforce its voter identification law for the Nov. 4 midterm elections, denying emergency requests from the Obama administration and other challengers who said the law harmed minority voting rights.

 

The high court’s move, announced in an early morning order, is a setback for civil-rights advocates and marks the court’s fourth recent action on a state’s election procedures just ahead of Election Day.Scissors-32x32.png

 

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Wall Street Journal:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday allowed Texas to enforce its voter identification law for the Nov. 4 midterm elections, denying emergency requests from the Obama administration and other challengers who said the law harmed minority voting rights.

 

The high courts move, announced in an early morning order, is a setback for civil-rights advocates and marks the courts fourth recent action on a states election procedures just ahead of Election Day.Scissors-32x32.png

 

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1. And the downside is......?

 

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"LawnKorn

4. The fix is in

Wendy Davis has the Republicans running so scared they are having to call in favors from SCOTUS."

 

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We now return you to the Real World.

 

 

 

 

2. More here from (evil) Fox News

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pens Scathing Dissent On Texas Voter ID Law
The Huffington Post | By Braden Goyette

Posted: 10/18/2014

 

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a six-page dissent early Saturday morning, blasting the court's decision to allow Texas to use its new voter ID law in the November elections. She was joined in the dissent by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

 

"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.

 

Ginsburg disputed the Fifth Circuit court of appeals' argument that it was too close to the November election to stop the law. Early voting begins on Monday in Texas.

 

"In any event, there is little risk that the District Court's injunction will in fact disrupt Texas' electoral process," she wrote. "Texas need only reinstate the voter identification procedures it employed for ten years (from 2003 to 2013) and in five federal general elections."

 

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The Court won’t interrupt Texas voter ID law

By Lyle Denniston on Oct 18, 2014 at 5:32 am

In a stinging defeat for the Obama administration and a number of civil rights groups in a major test case on voters’ rights, a divided Supreme Court told the state of Texas early Saturday morning that it may enforce its strict voter ID law for this year’s general election, with early voting starting next Monday. Three Justices dissented from the ruling, which was released a few minutes after 5 a.m. folllowing a seemingly lengthy study.

 

This apparently was the first time since 1982 that the Court has allowed a law restricting voters’ rights to be enforced after a federal court had ruled it to be unconstitutional because it intentionally discriminated against minorities. A U.S. District Court judge in Corpus Christi struck down the ID law last week after a nine-day trial, but it now awaits review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which temporarily blocked the trial judge’s ruling.

 

The Justice Department has indicated that the case is likely to return to the Supreme Court after the appeals court rules. Neither the Fifth Circuit’s action so far nor the Supreme Court’s Saturday order dealt with the issue of the law’s constitutionality. The ultimate validity of the law, described by Saturday’s dissenters as “the strictest regime in the country,” probably depends upon Supreme Court review. Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/court-wont-interrupt-texas-voter-id-law/#more-219822

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Ginsburg edits her voting rights dissent

By Lyle Denniston on Oct 22, 2014 at 1:12 pm

 

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has issued a new version of her dissent, released early Saturday morning in a Texas voting rights case, to fix an error about one kind of ID card that voters can use to qualify to vote. The revised dissenting opinion, in full, can be read here. Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/ginsburg-edits-her-voting-rights-dissent/

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Jay Sekulow, Sean Hannity Talk Voter ID Laws

By ACLJ.org2 yrs. ago

Jay Sekulow appeared on the Sean Hannity radio program to discuss the Obama Justice Department's attack on voter ID laws aimed at preventing voter fraud. Listen as Jay and Sean discuss why commonsense laws, like this one in Texas, are important to protecting against voter fraud and do not violate the Constitution.

 

Listen below:

Texas got it right

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http://aclj.org/us-constitution/jay-sekulow-sean-hannity-talk-voter-id-laws

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October 24, 2014

Texas Voter ID Survives the Race Card

By Edward H. Stewart, Jr.

Thanks to the Supreme Court, the new Texas voter ID law was in effect when early voting began in the 2014 midterm. The court upheld the Fifth Circuit's stay pending appeal of an October 11, 2014 District Court injunction barring implementation of the law's voter ID provisions. The last-minute injunction was issued by Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in an opinion whose content and timing make it smell suspiciously like the grievance industry's race card.

 

[E]ven where specific discriminatory practices end, their effects persist. It takes time for those who have suffered discrimination to slowly assert their power. Because of past discrimination and intimidation, there is a general pattern by African-Americans of not having the power to fully participate. Scissors-32x32.png

http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/texas_voter_id_survives_the_race_card.html

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