More on Crawford: The Court Steps Back From Electoral Refereeing
SCOTUS Blog offers this analysis by Richard Samp on the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday in Crawford which upheld Indiana’s voter ID law. Samp writes:
The partisan rancor is unlikely to subside any time soon in Congress or in the state legislatures. But with its decision Monday, the Supreme Court signaled that the federal courts should step back and not attempt to referee election reform disputes in the absence of evidence that a challenged state voting law either serves no relevant and legitimate state interests or imposes particularly severe and recurring burdens on the voting rights of identifiable classes of voters.