Well, we won one and lost one Friday in the courts RE: voter ID
Won in Ohio (6th Circuit Court of Appeals), lost in Wisconsin (7th Circuit)
www.electoral-vote.com
"Wisconsin May Enforce Voter ID Law in November
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin legislature passed a law requiring voters to show ID before being allowed to vote. It was signed by Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), who is running for reelection. The Democrats sued the state, claiming it unfairly burdened poor voters. A district judge agreed and said Wisconsin could not enforce the law. The state appealed. Yesterday a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals stayed the district court's order. As a consequence, the state is allowed to enforce the voter ID law this November. The court did not decide the case on its merits. It will yet do that, but it did not give a timetable of when it will do it. All three judges on the circuit court panel that made the ruling were appointed by Republican Presidents, one by Ronald Reagan and two by George W. Bush.
Ohio May Not Enforce Voter ID Law in November
Ohio, like Wisconsin, passed a law restricting voting, but rather than requiring voter IDs, it reduced the period early voting would be allowed. District judge Peter Economus told the state not to enforce the law in November. Ohio appealed and yesterday a three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals told Ohio they had to obey Economus' order. So early voting will happen in Ohio. In contrast to the 7th Circuit panel, all the judges who made the ruling in the Ohio case were appointed by Democratic Presidents.
While it is not clear if one can apply probability theory to judicial decisions, the chance of three unbiased people all voting the same way is 1 in 8. The probability of all six judges voting the way they did if they were unbiased is a bit over 1% (1/64). At the very least, the spectacle of Republican appointees doing what the Republicans want and Democratic appointees doing what the Democrats want does not give the impression that judges are impartial".
