Photo ID is NOT Required to Board an Airplane!: 7th Circuit Issues Blatant Falsehoods on WI Photo ID [View all]
Photo ID is NOT Required to Board an Airplane!: 7th Circuit Includes Blatant Falsehoods in New Opinion on WI's GOP Photo ID Voting Restriction
Election law expert describes ruling in advance of SCOTUS decision as 'Horrendous'...
Let me say this up front, so you don't miss it this time:
No, a Photo ID is not required to board an airplane. Period.
Last week, the ACLU filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of having the 7th Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling --- which overturned a lower court's injunction on Wisconsin's new Photo ID voting restriction --- stayed in advance of next month's election.
Today (Monday) a rather remarkable new opinion was issued by the 7th Circuit which seems designed to serve as a last-minute assist to the Republican defendants in Wisconsin in their response to the ACLU appeal, as Justice Elena Kagan has required the state's response no later than 5pm on Tuesday. The ruling is littered with blatant falsehoods...
FULL (MADDENING) STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10850
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NOTE: Not sure why, but this breaking story from last night on the release of the 7th Circuit's ruling in this case, filled with falsehoods from top to bottom that may be upheld by SCOTUS based on those falsehoods and result in the re-election of Scott Walker as well as similarly disenfranchising laws being upheld in TX, NC, AR and elsewhere, was locked today over at LBN, so I'm reposing here. - BF)