Judge Recants His Own Recanting of Key Voter ID Ruling

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from The Progressive:


Judge Recants His Own Recanting of Key Voter ID Ruling
By Brad Friedman, Oct. 29, 2013


Okay. Now this is beginning to get completely absurd.

In an article at New Republic headlined "I Did Not 'Recant' on Voter ID Laws'," published Monday, 7th Circuit Appellate Court Judge Richard Posner now claims he hasn't actually disavowed his landmark majority opinion in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board after all!

The record will show, however, the Reagan-appointed judge may have a bit of a faulty -- or, at least, selective -- memory.

The Crawford case is the now-infamous 2007 challenge to Indiana's then new polling place Photo ID restriction law which Posner voted to uphold in a 2 to 1 decision. The law was subsequently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. It is the only high-profile case to uphold such laws as Constitutional, even though Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the controlling opinion at SCOTUS, now believes dissenting Justice David Souter "got the thing correct." .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/judge-recants-own-recanting-of-key-voter-id-ruling

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1. somebody got to him!