When a voter ID law makes it tougher to vote, conservatives are all for it. Even the Supreme Court’s conservatives. Turns out, they won’t so much as uphold a lower court’s decision to temporarily forestall changes that will make voting harder, no matter how strongly precedent suggests they should.
In Brakebill, et al. v. Jaeger, Native American voters challenged North Dakota’s new, restrictive voter ID law, which imposes mandates that will disproportionately affect Native Americans and, in many cases, block them from voting entirely. Anyone who lives on a reservation or in a rural area, for example, will be unable to satisfy the new law’s address requirements.
The Supreme Court just bulldozed precedent to make it harder for Native Americans to vote
When a voter ID law makes it tougher to vote, conservatives are all for it. Even the Supreme Court’s conservatives. Turns out, they won’t so much as uphold a lower court’s decision to temporarily forestall changes that will make voting harder, no…
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