Dark Day For Justice
People are worried that a McCain presidency will move the SCOTUS too far to the right. I think it’s already there.
Supreme Court says states can demand photo ID for voting. From the lead opinion:
What Justice Stevens is saying here is that the only two cases of fraud mentioned during the course of the hearing had nothing to do with “in-person” voting.
From Balloon-Juice commenter, Davis X. Machina:
What happened to strict scrutiny?
Is there a compelling state interest?
Is the measure narrowly tailored to address only the harm?
Is this the least restrictive means to address the harm?It was my understanding that if you don-t clear hurdle #1, you don-t even get to propose the measure.
There is absolutely NO REASON for the Supreme Court to rule the way it did except:
We all know why this is: it’s because, as Common Cause reminds us, restricting in-person voting tends to reduce turnout among minorities, the elderly, voters with disabilities, the poor, and the young - all of which, though CC is too polite to mention it, tend to vote Democratic. Absentee voters, by contrast, tend to vote Republican.
