Judge Denies North Dakota Tribe's Request To Block Voter ID Law
Source: Talking Points Memo
By JAMES MacPHERSON
November 2, 2018 12:08 pm
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday denied a request from an American Indian tribe in North Dakota to block the state's voter ID law just days before the election.
North Dakota's law requires voters to show ID with a residential street address, which American Indians have argued is not always evident on reservations.
The Spirit Lake Sioux tribe sued the state Tuesday seeking a temporary restraining order, saying the street address requirement is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland wrote that the allegations gave him "great cause for concern" but that he was denying the motion because it would cause confusion so close to the election.
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A GW Bush appointee............and a US Supreme Court that has two new lackeys on the bench, that don't belong there, and one jerk leading the right wing republican pack that destroyed the Voting Rights Act......................I guess they missed that part on Native Sovereignty on self government in law school .....................Oh, I forgot the Federalist Society members don't like the Constitution ...............
November 6, 2018 cannot get here fast enough.....................vote ( I hope my voting early will help my brother and sisters, in the long term)
diva77
(7,676 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Native peoples living on reservations should not have to register with the state they live in. They are technically sovereign nations that deal directly with the federal government. Something needs to be done so that they can register outside of state laws.
FBaggins
(26,783 posts)The individual states control elections.
In fact, even after the Snyder Act (almost a century ago) granted them citizenship, it took another four decades before every state gave them the vote.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)It's just so infuriating that certain states can be such dicks.
Gregory Peccary
(490 posts).... that I will do nothing about it. Nice logic there judge. Prick.
turbinetree
(24,745 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,512 posts)FBaggins
(26,783 posts)He ruled the other way initially and then had both the appellate and supreme courts rule against him.