Monday, April 28, 2008 - Posts
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I hate showing ID just as much as the next guy. (Well maybe not as much as John Gilmore, one EFF's founders, who sued the federal government when he was denied boarding because he refused to show any ID.) But as everyone knows sometimes it is background Read More...
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All the justices agree that states must "balance" the benefits and costs of voter ID requirements. The benefit is reduction in voter fraud; the cost is disenfranchisement of those who cannot obtain the ID. No one explains what an appropriate balance is, Read More...
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A few modest additions to the early word on voter ID. First, for all those who would prefer to insist that Justice Stevens is easily pegged as a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, the Stevens-Roberts-Kennedy opinion in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board Read More...
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David and I agree that we would like constitutional rules that would facilitate political bargains between people with different political interests; as David puts it: "if you ensure voters are who they say they are, we'll let you register more of them." Read More...
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JUSTICE STEVENS announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE and Justice KENNEDY join. That's from Crawford v. Marion County . It reveals yet again just how influential Justice Kennedy is: He's such a swinging Read More...
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Marty nicely describes the paucity of evidence supporting Indiana's claim in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board that voter fraud is rampant in Hoosier land. After all, the Court long ago held in Croson that Richmond could not rely on experiences Read More...
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Forgive me for interrupting the conversation about the Supreme Court's decision today upholding Indiana's baleful voter ID law, which I hope will continue. But another topic for a moment: Depressing findings from the Chronicle of Higher Education . Even Read More...
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In Crawford v. Marion County Election Board , the Supreme Court continues a trend of using technical doctrines of facial challenges to swat away constitutional litigation and drive questions back to the political process. Whether you think that is a good Read More...
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I'm just beginning to read through the opinions in today's decision upholding the facial validity of Indiana's voter-ID law. Along with many others, I have argued that the law is unconstitutional because it imposes burdens on voting without advancing Read More...
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Adam Liptak's article in The New York Times described America's extraordinary incarceration rate, a rate clearly outstripping that of any industrialized country. But Liptak overstates the case when he talks about the relationship between incarceration Read More...
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