Breaking: #SCOTUS allows North Dakota voter ID requirement, which had been enjoined during the primaries, to be enforced during the general election.pic.twitter.com/wEvQcttwxz
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In today's order, Justice Ginsburg, joined by Justice Kagan, dissented, noting that the "risk of voter confusion appears severe here" because different rules applied during the primary election.https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4999244-18A335-Brakebill-v-Jaeger-Order.html …
Justice Kavanaugh did not participate. Also, as I've noted before, justices do not need to state their votes in applications like this. As such, all that we know is that a majority voted against vacating the stay, and that 2 of the 8 justices participating noted their dissent.
Those seeking to have the requirement — that a voter's ID have their "current residential street address" — enjoined say it discriminates against Native Americans in North Dakota. (The district court agreed.)pic.twitter.com/jbvDolZeBJ
The state countered that the law is needed to prevent fraud and ensure that people are getting the right ballots.pic.twitter.com/zvxiBW1VdO
Correction, via @ssamcham: The ND SCOTUS application (see the thread that this is a reply to) only needed to be a 4-4, not majority, vote for the voter ID requirement to be enforced for this election b/c a tie vote would mean the 8th Cir decision, staying the injunction, stands.
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