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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner
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Breaking: #SCOTUS allows North Dakota voter ID requirement, which had been enjoined during the primaries, to be enforced during the general election.
Here was the filing asking #SCOTUS to lift the stay that had been entered by the 8th Circuit of the district court's injunction: documentcloud.org/documents/4999…
Here was North Dakota's opposition to the request. (The state hired William Consovoy in DC as outside counsel.) —> supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/1…
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. documentcloud.org/documents/4999…
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.)
The state countered that the law is needed to prevent fraud and ensure that people are getting the right ballots.
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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