South Carolina closing arguments on voter ID law set

Key nugget at a review of the evidence @ MyrtleBeachOnline:


In a highly unusual move, the three judges asked South Carolina’s lawyers to respond to eight written post-trial questions clarifying how state officials would implement the law. The judges’ questions indicated the frustration they’d expressed in skeptical questions at the trial over the state’s changing positions.

“Can we then expect that there will not be new facts and new interpretations of (the voter ID law) and its implementation that will be offered during the course of the briefing (Monday) or through Attorney General (Wilson) opinions or any other methods?” the judges asked in one of the post-trial questions. Lawyers for South Carolina provided a succinct response.

“The state does not intend to present any facts or interpretations inconsistent with Ms. Andino’s testimony,” they wrote.

Read more here: DoJ Double Standard on New Hampshire photo ID .  Instead, DoJ defaulted to left-wing ideology and partisan considerations in finding a way, any way, to try to block the law.  The lack of objectivity resulted in two objections to the South Carolina law, a delay of a year, for a law that should receive preclearance by the court. 

South Carolina closing arguments on voter ID law set

Key nugget at a review of the evidence @ MyrtleBeachOnline:


In a highly unusual move, the three judges asked South Carolina’s lawyers to respond to eight written post-trial questions clarifying how state officials would implement the law. The judges’ questions indicated the frustration they’d expressed in skeptical questions at the trial over the state’s changing positions.

“Can we then expect that there will not be new facts and new interpretations of (the voter ID law) and its implementation that will be offered during the course of the briefing (Monday) or through Attorney General (Wilson) opinions or any other methods?” the judges asked in one of the post-trial questions. Lawyers for South Carolina provided a succinct response.

“The state does not intend to present any facts or interpretations inconsistent with Ms. Andino’s testimony,” they wrote.

Read more here: DoJ Double Standard on New Hampshire photo ID .  Instead, DoJ defaulted to left-wing ideology and partisan considerations in finding a way, any way, to try to block the law.  The lack of objectivity resulted in two objections to the South Carolina law, a delay of a year, for a law that should receive preclearance by the court.