[EL] Justice Stevens also blames challengers for failing to present enough evidence in Marion County

[Josh Blackman]

Hello all,

>From an interview with Justice Stevens in WSJ, he blames the challengers
for failing to provide enough evidence to show an impact on minority
voters:

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304384104579141701228734132-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwNzExNDcyWj.html?dsk=y

In an interview this week, Justice Stevens said he isn't "a fan of voter
ID" and wasn't in 2008. But he said his opinion was correct because the
challengers failed to present enough evidence showing the requirement
suppressed poor and minority voters. "My opinion should not be taken as
authority that voter-ID laws are always OK," Justice Stevens said. "The
decision in the case is state-specific and record-specific."

...

"I have always thought that David Souter [who dissented] got the thing
correct, but my own problem with the case was that I didn't think the
record supported everything he said in his opinion," said Justice Stevens,
who retired in 2010. "He got a lot of stuff off the Internet and inferred
things and so forth." But "as a matter of actual history, he's dead right.
The impact of the statute is much more serious" on poor, minority, disabled
and elderly voters than evidence in the 2008 case demonstrated, he said.

I would also commend Paul Smith's blog post today:
http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/thoughts-on-judge-posner%E2%80%99s-admission-of-error-on-the-indiana-voter-id-law

I expected this other shoe to drop after Posner's statement.
http://joshblackman.com/blog/2013/10/17/told-you-so-justice-stevens-rehabilitates-his-opinion-in-marion-county-case/
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