Justices to Hear Challenge to Law
The Supreme Court will open the new year with its most politically divisive case since Bush v. Gore decided the 2000 presidential election, and its decision could force a major reinterpretation of the rules of the 2008 contest.
The case presents what seems to be a straightforward and even unremarkable question: Does a state requirement that voters show a specific kind of photo identification before casting a ballot violate the Constitution?
The answer so far has depended greatly on whether you are a Democratic or Republican politician -- or even, some believe, judge.
... The case has pitted Democrats against Republicans, conservative legal foundations against liberal ones, civil rights organizations against the Bush administration.
"Voter ID laws have become the most politicized" of governments' efforts to try to limit fraud and voting irregularities, said Richard L. Hasen, an election-law expert at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, who filed a brief supporting the law's challengers. "It's in the nation's best interest for the court to resolve it."
Hasen is one of those who point out that the partisan division on voter ID laws often extends to the judiciary. Not only did the 7th Circuit's 2 to 1 vote to uphold Indiana's law break down along the lines of which party nominated the judges; so, with one exception, did the full court's decision not to reconsider the ruling. Michigan's Supreme Court justices -- who are elected in partisan races -- upheld that state's voter ID law, with the five Republicans voting to support it and the two Democrats opposing it.
... "Virtually everything you do, you have to show a photo ID," Rokita said in an interview, and the "sacred civic transaction" of voting should be no different.
- THIS LAST STATEMENT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
- YET THE DEMS OPPOSE VOTER ID.
- WHY? SIMPLE: THE DEMS AND THEIR BACKERS ROUTINELY USE VOTER FRAUD; THERE HAVE BEEN UNGTEEN PROSECUTIONS IN THE LAST TEN YEARS, AND ALMOST ALL ARE DEMS.
- THAT'S WHY THIS IS A PARTISAN ISSUE: THE DEM MACHINE DEPENDS ON FRAUD IN MANY MANY JURISDICTIONS: MADISON; PHILLY; ST LOUIS; SEATTLE; ETC.
I THINK THIS - ALONG WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND EXPANDING ENERGY EXPLORATION - ARE KEY SLEEPER ISSUES FOR THE GOP IN 2008.
CHECK HERE (A DOZEN POSTS WITH LINKS AT GATEWAY) AND HERE FOR MORE ON RAMPANT INSTITUTIONALIZED DEMOCRAT PARTY VOTER FRAUD.
ROUND UP AT MEMEORANDUM.
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