Round-Up

UPDATE: Slate has posted this discussion of Purcell v. Gonzalez; it’s by Rick Hasen of the Election Law Blog.

Orin Kerr of George Washington University Law responds to Rick’s column this way: “Interesting essay. I suspect the difference is that the current Court is likely to uphold voter ID laws one way or the other, regardless of the empirical question. I would guess they see it as the flip side of campaign finance reform: If the Court is going to defer to the legislature’s guess that campaign finance reform makes elections less corrupt, they can’t then decline to defer to the legislature’s guess that voter ID laws make elections less corrupt. That’s my guess, anyway.” -Orin

The Equal Vote Blog, in a post here, has more analysis of Friday’s decision in the Arizona voter i.d. case [via this post at Election Law Blog].

The AP carried this story about the Supreme Court’s denial of an application for stay in a death penalty case in Ohio [via this post at Sentencing Law & Policy].

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