The United States Supreme Court has upheld Indiana’s law requiring a photo identification to be entitled to vote, over the objections of the ACLU, and many Democrats, that the law discriminates against minorities, the poor and the elderly.
The Court approved the law by a 6-3 vote, with Justice Stevens writing that the requirement was “amply justified by the valid interest in protecting ‘the integrity and reliability of the electoral process.’” Stevens’ opinion was joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy.
Justices Alito, Scalia, and Thomas were the other three in the majority, though they wrote separately to express their reasoning. Scalia called the law “eminently reasonable” and said it did not impose any significant increased burden on voters.
In his dissent, Justice Souter argued that the law “threatens to impose nontrivial burdens” on thousdands of Indiana citizens. Justice Breyer and ACLU extremist Justice Ginsburg were the others in the minority.
It once would have seemed unthinkable to argue that preventing vote fraud by requiring a photo ID was somehow unreasonable. But in this contentious and partisan atmosphere, such laws have routinely been challenged by the ACLU and other liberal groups.
Thank goodness the Supreme Court has restored a bit of sanity in this area.
Texas legislators, are you listening?
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To be a liberal, one must either have been born with the ability to apply logic and common sense, or one must be willing to voluntarily surrender the application of both.
Rick, I hear crickets chirping. What do you hear?
Another great decision by this court.
Well it least it wasn’t another 5-4 idealogue driven decision.
POW! ZOOM! home RUN by the Supremes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why GWB, despite his faults, was the “lesser of two evils” when he ran against Algore and then “flip/flop” Kerry. I don’t think the decision would have gone this way if either of the two Dimwits had won the Presidency and chose their liberal judges. This is also why you can’t let either HELLary or “BO” get into office for the future of the Supreme Court. Legislating from the bench is not what the Constitution had in mind but it seems to be the solution, especially if your a liberal Dimwit.
This should have been a 9-0 decision. It is almost impossible to operate in todays world without a photo ID. Without a photo ID, you can not board a public airline flight, without a photo id you can not drive, without a photo ID it is extremely difficult to cash a check. A photo id is now required to enter some government buildings. To enter the administrative offices of many school district now requires a photo id.
Why would be a burden to require a photo id when you vote?
#7 -
You ever try to haul a headstone or a casket into the DMV to get an I.D.??
I’d bet they are fairly heavy……
#8 Katfish, Love your satiric comment. Bet it would be even harder to haul in a vacant lot or even worse a vacant lot with an abandonded building on it. Would need a really big trailer for that.
Glad to see Souter, Breyer & Ginsburg are a lonely triumvirate on this one, though 9-0 is what it should have been as trl3 notes in #7.
Here’s an at-a-boy for reason on the court concerning this photo Id question. AT_A_BOYS!
How lets hope the Supreme Court hits another homerun with respect to the Second Amendment ruling they have coming up in june concerning the “Washington DC vs Heller” case.
If the SC has a strong ruling then in favor of Heller, and it looks like they will. We could see a run on grape coolaid by the goofy anti-self defense, anti-gun socialist.
This will be a big one folks, it will confirm once and for all an indivduals right to firearms (& self defense) and not a collective states right as viewed by the socialist.
Very true - its going to be a huge pain in the butt now to vote as a dead guy. This is a big setback for the democrats up north…
#10
I like our chances for a proper 2nd amendment ruling with Roberts and Alito on the court than I would have with a couple of Ginsburg clones which would have been appointed by a Kerry Presidency.
It should also make it easier to catch ineligible voters. If it doesn’t, I’d be interested in feedback from Paul Bettencourt on what more could be done.
Next we need a law that when an illegal alien (as opposed to a legal alien, who actually went through the process) goes in to get ID, that they are immediately apprehended and deported to the southern end of their native country, i.e., Tapachula for Mexicans. Or if we want to send a loud message, bump (with compensation) Americans going to Mexico from their seats, and put the illegals in their place to Cozumel, or some other resort where we would clog their airports and stiffle their tourist dollars. We could then raid Mexican bank accounts in the USA to compensate for what we paid the bumped passengers. When tourist dollars going to Mexico dried up, then the Mexican govt might actually take it seriously.
I understand this ruling will cut into the democrat voting block, but it will not be because it is difficult for any living citizen to get a picture ID.
Big45iron
Why can’t we just hire all the trucks coming North from Mexico under NAFTA to haul a load of ILLEGALS back to Mexico?
#8 Katfish -
Forget carrying in the headstone or casket. I’m seeing, “Weekend at Bernie’s III”. AKA, Hillary takes Bernie to the DMV.
trl3 #15, because they would just drop them at the border, and we want them farther south.
#11 raiderdav
Good thing LBJ isn’t around for this. His 1948 primary win would never have happened.
Actually he most likely would have still won.
why is it an inconvenience to show your ID to vote, but NOT an inconvenience to show your ID to buy beer?
Actually having to prove that you are who say you are. The Dems must be really PO’d. No more dead people voting (in alphabetical order).
Dan said the dems could loose as many as 7% of their voters….. that’s pathetic! Fraud no more.
Al W, I’ve been complaining for 30 years now that nobody even asks me for me ID to buy liquor.
The ‘LET THE FOREIGNERS VOTE’ crowd won’t like this one…… A six to three vote, especially this six, will further perplex them because they were not all considered conservative.
Today’s Supreme Court ruling that approves states’ efforts to pass a voter identification law, now should be enacted within every state within the union. California should especially adopt a law requiring ID, because of a massive illegal immigration issue fermenting within it’s borders. States with faint-hearted Governors, Mayor and city managers such as Los Angeles county who live under a overcast suspicion of voter fraud; specially when proposition 187 was resisted and dismissed without going to the upper courts. Millions of illegal aliens subsist in the border states and are sucking those states budgets dry, compliments of the parasite employers. It is all encompassing your Jobs and economic growth, energy independence, health care access, education and an overcrowded prison system. All these issues are impacted by the 12 to 30 million illegal immigration invasion.
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Next the anchor babies. Time to do away with that for illegals.
#25 Big45Iron, Right on, sir.
The bigger issue (and the biggest reservoir of fraud) are mail in ballots. Photo ID does nothing to prevent widespread mail in ballot fraud unfortunately.
That said, this is a very good step in the right direction.
Rorschach, Paul Bettencourt’s office does a good job in weeding out those and other ineligible voters. But of course Harris County is NOT Chicago, LA, NYC, Chicago, Detroit (where you also have to weed out the terrorists), or any other Dem controlled city.
Let’s not forget too that it was the Travis County Clerk, Democrat Dana DeBeauvoir, who was caught not sending ballots overseas to the military. Too bad liberal Austin didn’t pay any attention and chose her over James Crabtree.
Good for the Supreme Court. Me says Bush’s nominees for the court are looking pretty darn good.
Way to go Supreme Court, now if they would just give me a paper receipt after I vote.