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http://fox6now.com/2014/10/09/breaking-u-s-supreme-court-blocks-wisconsin-from-implementing-voter-id-law/BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court blocks Wisconsin from implementing voter ID law
Posted 8:09 pm, October 9, 2014, by AP Wire Service, Updated at 08:20pm, October 9, 2014
Breaking news
MADISON (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Wisconsin from implementing a law requiring voters to present photo IDs.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday declared the law constitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union followed that up the next day with an emergency request to the Supreme Court asking it to block the ruling ahead of the November election.
On Thursday night the nations highest court did so, vacating the appeals court ruling pending further proceedings. Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented from the decision.
The voter photo identification law has been a political flashpoint since Republican legislators passed it in 2011. The law was in effect for the February 2012 primary but subsequent legal challenges have kept it on hold.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)rso
(2,271 posts)Outstanding news !!
Andy823
(11,495 posts)But a good one.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)Good for our side.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)sheshe2
(83,748 posts)The domino's are falling in our favor.
GOTV 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Vote cause your life does depend on it!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)sheshe2
(83,748 posts)me too fresh!
undeterred
(34,658 posts)and this is where to donate if you can: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/35198
riversedge
(70,204 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Another victory for voters and another defeat for voter suppressors.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)It blew my mind to read that! But yes, it's HAPPY DAY!
procon
(15,805 posts)fall like dominoes, which will finally force Republicans to run on the merits of their own agenda instead cheating by illegally tilting election in their favor.
RobinA
(9,888 posts)While I totally disagree with voter ID laws for a variety of reasons, I am a social worker and it is part of my job to get people with mental health problems IDs. For benefit, not voting reasons. It is becoming increasingly difficult to get people IDs, since you need an ID to get an ID. People at ID-granting agencies seem to have no grasp of the fact that there are people in this world who aren't walking around with a pocket full of official documents. I hope that this whole voter ID nonsense brings to light and spurs some action toward looking at people trying to get IDs on a case by case basis, rather than looking at everyone as a potential plane-crashing terrorist.
Yes, there are people who don't know where they were born, people who don't know their parents names, people who don't pay bills with their address on top. There are people who don't look at all like their naturalization paper picture that was taken in the '70's when they were 25. Then there are the people who don't have the money to update resident alien registration, and people who can't afford a state ID because THEY CAN'T GET THEIR BENEFITS WITHOUT AN ID. How about the people who are too sick to sit in the office of one of these agencies for hours on end? Nope, you often can't ask a person with schizophrenia to sit at the jam-packed social security office full of screaming kids and irate adults for and hour and have then maintain themselves. Then there's the whole ID loop that can affect any of us if we have all ID stolen in a purse grab (that would be me).
It would make my job a whole lot easier and my clients' lives immensely easier if some individualization could prevail in obtaining an ID.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)write a detailed letter to GAB and send a copy to the Board--when you have time that is. In solidarity
procon
(15,805 posts)With all the technological marvels of this information age, it certainly should -- and could -- be a whole lot easier for folks to acquire a permanent I'D.
Although, I must say, in the case of these voter suppression laws, an actual I'D was never the real issue at all.
SomeGuyInEagan
(1,515 posts)Guess the check from the Koch brothers was late.
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)and their appeal as well. Hallelujah!
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Gothmog
(145,156 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)toddwv
(2,830 posts)Not surprised that the 3 As (Alito, Antonin, and Asshole) dissented.
Cha
(297,180 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Thrusting pins in voodoo dolls as I speak.
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)suppression remains abandoned of remedies for its people
JustAnotherGen
(31,817 posts)riversedge
(70,204 posts)much with my budget but it will be appreciated.