I say again, prepare. Begin using all measures to make sure as many people as possible can meet their stupid requirements. Show them, they can’t get away with it.
Luckily, here in PA, they were so inept, that twice the courts said no, try again. They’ve given up for now. But that won’t matter after the November elections.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented, saying they would have left the district court decision in place.
As long as there is a RWNJ majority on the SCOTUS, insane, unconstitutional rulings will be the norm. I truly cannot express the contempt and hatred I feel for Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito and (sigh) Breyer.
John Roberts better get used to the title of the worst justice in the history of the court .
But others have pointed out that getting the necessary documents can be burdensome, especially if one lacks a birth certificate, or if the nearest DMV is many miles away and only open a few hours a day and a couple days of the week, or if an hourly worker needs to skip a day of work – and risk losing a job – in order to go and wait in line or chase down original documents etc.
No difference, no difference at all between voting Democratic or voting Republican. Exactly the same. Always. Forever. In fact, no reason to vote at all. It’s all the same. Whatever.
Disgusting. These old white guys and the Uncle Tom are turning in one bad decision after another. Shameful.
As Ginsburg’s dissent points out, more than 400,000 voters live more than a 3-hour round trip from a DPS office where a voter ID can be obtained. Somehow I doubt they’re open on weekends for voters’ convenience. It’s worth reading the whole thing where she dismantles the case for leaving the law in place until it’s decided:
or Voter Purification Act.
This is just a sneak preview of the vote-suppressing rulings to come this term. The Roberts court is just warming up.
Same-sex marriage? No longer advantageous to GOP GOTV efforts, therefore it is allowed to be resolved slowly through the lower courts. In fact, it’s almost to the point where placing same-sex marriage legalization referenda could be beneficial to the Democratic party, which is exactly why the Republicans on the bench need to let the lower court rulings stand. They’ve got to do whatever they can to slow the loosening of the white conservative majority’s grip on policy making. That’s why so many of these lower court rulings that identify voter suppression laws as such must be stayed “for the sake of the status quo.” (“Status quo” taking on a double meaning there).
The justices aren’t blind. They read the news. They speak at Tea Party fundraisers. They’re fully aware of the slow-motion demographic shift that all but ensures the end of 200+ years of white conservative dominance, and they know full well the role they play in hitting the brakes and delaying the inevitable for as long as possible. They’ll be working in concert with GOP legislators to enact pro-corporate policies to the maximum extent possible before their reign comes to an end. In the meantime, it will not be pretty. You can expect the high court to take increasingly extreme positions at least until one of the conservative justices is replaced. It could take considerably longer if President Christie gets to make a few appointments to the bench, and don’t be so sure that won’t happen.
A look into the mind of the GOTP:
Obamacare is an infringement on personal freedom.
Universal background checks for purchasers of firearms is a violation of the Second Amendment.
Restrictive voting laws are a protection of democracy.
Only in 'merica.
If the SCrOTUS (Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas) really believed that voter fraud was a problem they would order the states to register all eligible voters and provide them with state issued identification cards at no cost to the voter and with a reasonable time such as 18 months before the next election before the ID would be mandatory. But we know that they do NOT believe that voter fraud is real and that this is the next step after gerrymandering to swing elections in favor of the minority party.
Kind of ironic that the minority party is not interested in minorities.
Voter suppression and control of districts by gerrymandering is par for the course in a plantation state such as Texas.
Now this is what we’ve been fighting for in Iraq! Not, as Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel would say, “stopping 9-11,” but stopping undesirable voters!
I will hit this again. Texas isn’t New York. No one, white, black or Hispanic can get along without a drivers license. This law isn’t nearly as bad as some in other parts of the country. I don’t see how the Republicans are going to gain a lot from this law. That said, I am with you. This law was intended to hold down minority voting and should be overturned for that reason alone. I just don’t think it is going to hold down minority voter turn out as intended. That is probably why the vote was 6/3.