October 10, 2014
On the heels of two Supreme Court rulings upholding voting restrictions in Ohio and North Carolina came some good news Thursday for voting rights supporters: The Supreme Court put Wisconsin’s voter ID law on hold for this election, and a federal judge overturned Texas’s strict voter ID law. The high court’s 6-3 vote overturned a federal appeals court ruling Monday that would have allowed the Wisconsin law, passed in 2011 by the state’s Republican-held legislature and supported by Gov. Scott Walker (R.) to take effect. Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented, but they acknowledged “the proximity of the upcoming general election” as a reason for the majority decision along with concern that some Wisconsin voters have already cast absentee ballots for November without using the identification the law would require.Please click here to read the full article.