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A 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana voter-identification law.(The Week)(Brief article)

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A 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana voter-identification law. The decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board underscores the importance of nominating conservative justices who value judicial restraint. More than half of the states have passed laws requiring the presentation of some form of identification in order to vote. It is easy to imagine a more activist Court overturning those democratically enacted laws based on a few liberal groups' spurious claims of ...

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