The new poll tax stands: Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce voter ID law in November

[cali]

The Supreme Court said Saturday that Texas can use its controversial new voter identification law for the November election.

A majority of the justices 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. 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. 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. Early voting in Texas begins Monday.

The Supreme Court's order was unsigned, as it typically is in these situations. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented, saying they would have left the district court decision in place.

"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 in dissent.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/supreme-court-texas-enforce-voter-id-law-november-article-1.1978830

I'm all for GOTV , but all the GOTV in the world won't help with this shit.

[Gman]

1. But you see, the SCOTUS is in on this too

The plan for conservatives to control the agenda for the next 25 years, at least. The plan includes harsh gerrymandering and likely more to come in future years.

And they couldn't care less about social conservatives. It's all about money. The bone to the socials will be outlawing abortion maybe as soon as next year. The GOP and conservatives do their dirtiest work in off election years.

Watch for conservatives in many states to go after the electoral college next year too. They have a grand plan.

[Thinkingabout]

2. The Texas ID law did not prevent Bruce Fleming from voting in Texas and

Pennsylvania. He even ran for office in Fort Bend county and was friends with True the Vote lady.
On the voter rolls it shows whether your voter ID matches you DL. If it isn't a match you are offered an opportunity to have voter ID match DL. You can still vote and in the case where last names have changed you are required to fill out more paper work. It is really a crock of crap. It makes it difficult for non driver older voters, voting is our right, doesn't require a drivers test and doesn't stop voter fraud especially by Republicans.

[world wide wally]

3. Of course this Supreme Court would

[Gothmog]

4. RBG wrote a great dissent