Update: Counting on Wisconsin citizens to not stay current as Republican judges and Scott Walker play with their voting rights, stopping Wisconsin voters from voting is a bone fide movement of the Republican Party.
"For reasons I’ve flagged here, implementing voter id in Wisconsin at the last minute is likely to cause electoral chaos—a point which should be compelling regardless of where you stand on the actual merits of WI implementing its voter id law in an organized way," notes Rick Hasen's latest.
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Rick Hasen is a rigorous election law scholar whom most Americans perhaps find boring.
But after the release of the opinions [five-to-five] of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denying the motion to restore the status quo of the injunction (or blocking) of Wisconsin's Voter ID law, Hasen let lose with a word not normally associated with a federal appellate court: Disingenuous.
Check Hasen's piece out.
The truth of the matter is the formal structures of our democracy are imperiled, along with the substantive functioning.
See also In Wisconsin, a Push for Voter ID Law, But Not Voter IDs. (Fischer, PRWatch)
The Judiciary no longer should be accorded any more respect than a corrupt Chicago alder from the 1960s.
The only problem is that hacks like Judge Rudolph Randa and the goons on the Seventh Circuit rule with the force of law.
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