Posted on 10/16/2012 12:26:44 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
Arizona passed a law in 2005 that says anyone registering to vote must provide "satisfactory evidence of United States citizenship," in the form of a driver's license, passport, birth certificate or some other document. The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the law stands.
Critics of the statute, such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, say that the proof-of-citizenship requirement is an unconstitutional burden and that it conflicts with the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which allows prospective voters to register by checking a box on a form that asks "Are you a citizen of the United States?"
State law enforcement officials defend the measure. "Arizona has a right to ask people for evidence that they are citizens when they register to vote," said Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne in a statement yesterday. "If someone is willing to vote illegally, he or she is willing to sign a false statement regarding citizenship. This 'honor system' is not sufficient to guard the integrity of the election system."
According to John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky, the authors of "Who's Counting?," a new book on voter fraud, the Arizona law has prevented at least 20,000 non-citizens from registering to vote.
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Add to the list buying alcohol and renting a video.
Must be one or the other, or something equally humiliating.
of a sissy?
shouls be “is a sissy”
Interesting questions from 7 years ago.....
http://underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com/main/2005/08/the_roberts_ado.html
Does anyone know if they have taken a homo. marriage case, and if so, which one(s)?
Play on “of Assisi”
It was either one hell of a bribe or pictures/video of him doing something in a hotel room.
I am not at all comfortable with anything important coming before this court now that it has three distinct factions: 4 liberals, 4 conservatives, and 1 moron.
Between a dead girl and a live boy? My guess is the latter.
I WILL say this. Up until Roberts took his OWN shoddy interpretation of this case (an intellectually contemptible one), he had been a steadfast conservative guy. I was MORTIFIED not just for his ruling, but the ludicrous methodology he employed to arrive at his opinion.
Something smells to high heaven!
NOT requiring proof of citizenship to vote is similar to conducting a driver’s test for a driver’s license in a car that does not go out of first gear. Yes the candidate is driving, but no, they cannot fully apply the law to determine if the candidate can really drive.
Forget Roberts, this one has Kennedy’s patronizing open-borders attitude all over it. Disaster in the making.
It turns out that the Obamacare ruling actually makes it easier to repeal it since, as a tax, it comes under the rules about reconciliation. Thus, it cannot be filabustered.
Roberts did not get the law off the hook.
It turns out that the Obamacare ruling actually makes it easier to repeal it since, as a tax, it comes under the rules about reconciliation. Thus, it cannot be filabustered.
Roberts did not get the law off the hook.
Compared to striking the law down, he sure did. Only now we have his decision that the Feds can force any unconstitutional garbage they want as long as they use a tax to enforce it.
Of course he will. After all, when he upheld Obamacare, he mentioned something along the lines of allowing the law to stand because it was passed by the people's elected representatives. /sarc
(If that argument ever has any merit at all, why would the SCOTUS ever strike down any law? Oh, but of course; STATE laws are always subject to Federal scrutiny! So, never mind. Arizona is screwed.)
Thanks for the info.
It does not matter what The Disaster calls the tax, it is still a tax, so Roberts was not wrong about that. I have not read the decision and was quite disappointed by it but from what I have discerned the decision is centered on the fact that a tax was passed.
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