Supreme Court Upholds Indiana Voter Identification Law

On Monday, the United States Supreme Court announced its decision in Crawford v. Marion County, a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Indiana's recently enacted voter identification law. This law, which took effect in July 2005, requires individuals voting in person to present a photographic identification at the polls. (Indiana Public Law 109-2005) Not long after the Indiana Legislature passed the law, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, along with William Crawford, an Indiana legislator who represents one of the poorest districts in Indiana, filed a challenge to the statute on behalf of the plaintiff, claiming that it poses an unjustified burden on the poor and minorities. (New York Times, Justices Agree to Hear Case About Voter ID Laws, September 26, 2007.) The Supreme Court rejected this argument, and in a 6-3 decision, upheld the law.

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Illegal Immigration Costs Iowans $241 Million!
Analysis based on an estimated 55,000 illegal alien population residing in Iowa indicates that they cost the state’s taxpayers more than $241 million per year for education, medical care and incarceration.
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