In the last year, I’ve litigated five NVRA cases and worked on the preemption issues for years, and there is more to cheer in today’s opinion than there is to bemoan. Those complaining about the opinion don’t understand what the Left’s goal was in this case: total federal preemption. On that score, Justice Scalia foiled them; indeed, the decision today was a huge war won, even if the small Arizona battle was lost.
Huh,
Kate, I just hate it when you confuse me with facts.
Adams’ column is quite encouraging. Thanks.
First, Arizona can simply push the state forms in all state offices and online, and keep those federal forms in the back room gathering dust. When you submit a state form, you have to prove citizenship. Thanks to Justice Scalia, that option is perfectly acceptable. Loss for the Left. Victory for election integrity.
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Next, when voters use a state, as opposed to a federal, form, they can still be required to prove citizenship. The federal form is irrelevant in that circumstance.
After the decision today, states have a green light to do double- and triple-checking even if a registrant uses the federal form.
I sure hope it works out that way.
Canada should also require proof of citizenship when registering to vote. The law says one has to be a citizen but the enumerators don’t ask for proof.
That’s curious because I’ve seen women turned away at polling stations without proof of marriage due to name changes.
If I had my way, everyone of voter age would be required to register at an office with proof of citizenship, identity and address (a fingerprint will be required) and they would have to take a brief quiz. If one cannot answer four, little true/false questions (and I’m sure there aren’t) that Grade Four students can answer, no dice.
I also recall that some pundits were insistent that Chief Justice John Roberts had masterfully laced a poison pill into ObamaCare when he voted it constitutional and wrote the majority opinion. Why, it was a rope-a-dope that Ali would have been proud of!
Forgive me if I’m rather less optimistic than Mr. Adams. I’ve just seen this sort of too-clever-by-half reasoning provided for the Republicans one time too many. In fact I read an article recently that revealed just how ingrained the mentality is among Beltway Republicans, and that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in particular is fond of the expression “losing tactically”.
Senator McConnell needs to learn a new axiom in politics: it’s not over ’til the liberals win. Even if this court case has the implication that Mr. Adams suggests, it will not be allowed to actually have that effect, because everything is still up for grabs and open to interpretation until the Left gets what they want. At that point it’s set in concrete and they’ll call it “settled law”.
“Even though the US Supreme Court has voted 7-2 to block Arizona’s voter ID law, it will be business as usual for the state.
Secretary of State Ken Bennett told all 15 county recorders to reject any state voter registration form that does not contain proof of citizenship.
That’s the part of the law the nation’s high court ruled invalid.”
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/22615267/arizona-to-defy-us-supreme-court-decision
We’ll see… I guess the fat lady hasn’t sung yet.
Do the dems even follow voting rules? it’s a loss all the way around especially a moral loss becasue you will never see another true republican conservative in the white house ever again. look at last election …massive voter fraud all over the place and only a hand full of libs are being held accountable one lady voted 6 times for obama in the last election (video was posted here i beleive) so wehat makes you think the liberal poll attendants will do anything the right way if it means there guy may lose? america is done along with the rest of the west!
The blue states will never use state forms locking their vote in.
So, the left tried to use SCOTUS to eliminate the Electoral College ?
The EAC was designed as a Federal Registration Voter Form which means in Federal Elections you can go to any state show the Federal Form and then vote. This would effectively bypass the Electoral Votes and decide Federal Elections by popular vote. Scalia shot a hole in that scam.
Either way, T/Y Scalia, but the real problem here is 49 Million on Food Stamps, 12 Million on Disability, 9 Million Free Cellphones, 52 Million on Medicaid, 12 Million Absentee Ballots from ACORN, 15 Million Stupid White Liberals, throw in 12 Million Illegal Mexicans and Bada Bing Bada Boom you got yourself an election.
Republicans are still hosed.