A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked a lower court from allowing voters in Wisconsin to cast ballots without photo identification, stating that the lower court had been too lenient in loosening a state voter ID law that had already been declared discriminatory.
The injunction, issued by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, adds a new measure of confusion into a fierce battle over the 2011 law in a battleground state, three months before the presidential election.
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This sucks. Well, the judges are in Chicago. Maybe someone here will exercise their 2nd amendment right and fix the issue. Wink, wink.
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This 3-judge panel ruling from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals is more complicated than the excerpt I included. It isn’t all bad news.
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Very true. Well, perhaps I’ll exercise my 2nd amendment right elsewhere.
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