U.S. Supreme Court Allows Texas to Enforce New Voter ID Law for November Election [View all]
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Source: Associated Press / USA Today
@AP: BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce new voter ID law for November election
Supreme Court rules Texas can enforce voter ID law
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court allowed Texas on Saturday to enforce its photo identification law at the polls in the upcoming elections, reaching the opposite conclusion from a similar Wisconsin case a week earlier.
The order, coming two days before early voting is set to begin, completes a series of voting rights challenges that had come before the court on an emergency basis. The justices also upheld new restrictions on voting in North Carolina and Ohio that did not include photo ID requirements.
The order was not signed, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg filed a six-page dissent, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
"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 said.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/18/texas-voter-id-law-supreme-court/17494191/
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