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Jan
10
Voter ID Arguments Before Supreme Court
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Advance Indiana has a great report detailing the oral arguments for and against Indiana’s law requiring voters to show identification before voting.
I just got through reading the transcript from today’s oral argument in Crawford v. Rokita, the case challenging the constitutionality of Indiana’s Voter ID law.
To say the opponents of Voter ID’s arguments fell flat is an understatement. Paul Smith, arguing for the Petitioners, barely got his first sentence out before Scalia pounced all over him on the issue of standing.
After consuming a great deal of his time fielding justices questions about standing, Chief Justice Roberts confronted Smith with this question: “Well, I understand Judge Barker to say that you had not come up with a single instance of somebody who was denied the right to vote because they didn’t have a photo ID?” I don’t think Roberts was satisfied with Smith’s response. “So that comment, while it was made, I don’t quite understand its significance,” Smith replied. Roberts rhetorically asked, “So elections were conducted under this law?”
