October 18, 2014      4:33 AM
The AP reports the SCOTUS will allow Texas to enforce Voter ID for this election
"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..."
Per the
AP
story:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme
Court is allowing Texas to use its controversial new voter
identification law for the November election. A majority of the nation's
highest court on Saturday rejected an emergency request from the Justice
Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring
voters to produce certain forms of photo identification in order to cast
ballots.
The Supreme Court's order
was unsigned, but three justices dissented.
The law was struck down by
a federal judge last week, but a federal appeals court had put that ruling on
hold. Early voting in Texas begins Monday. The judge found that roughly 600,000
voters, many of them black or Latino, could be turned away at the polls because
they lack acceptable identification.”
Here is the dissenting
opinion, in which Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg writes "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."
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