Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Ginsburg's dissent calls out GOP voter suppression. It is not the only voting rights litigation that will affect who can vote in the midterm elections this fall. There is Georgia's refusal to process more than 50,000 voter registrations from a minority voter drive. But as Ginsburg's blistering 7-page dissent made clear, the fight over Texas's voter ID law is in a class by itself. That's because a lower federal court held a trial and found that the law's intent was to discriminate and disenfranchise, calling it a "poll tax," and then that record was ignored by higher federal appeals courts--including the Supreme Court. "Texas did not begin to demonstrate that the Bill's discriminatory features were necessary to prevent fraud or to increase public confidence in the electoral process," Ginsburg wrote in her dissent. |