U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Wisconsin from Implementing Voter ID Law
Friday, October 10th, 2014 -- 8:13 AM
-The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Wisconsin from implementing a law requiring voters to present photo IDs.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday declared the law constitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union followed that up the next day with an emergency request to the Supreme Court asking it to block the ruling ahead of the November election.
On Thursday night the nation's highest court did so, vacating the appeals court ruling pending further proceedings. Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented from the decision.
The voter photo identification law has been a political flashpoint since Republican legislators passed it in 2011. The law was in effect for the February 2012 primary but subsequent legal challenges have kept it on hold. The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board was supposed to kick off their $400,000 public awareness campaign about the Voter ID Law today, but, in light of this ruling, it?s up in the air.
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