2008 Supreme Court Case Study

A second academic study from the New York University Journal Of Legislation & Public Policy discusses a 2008 Supreme Court case, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, which dealt with photo I.D. laws in Indiana. This Supreme Court had a majority of conservative members, who had been appointed by Republican Presidents, and ruled to uphold a strict photo identification law. Since the decision, fourteen additional states decided to enact a photo identification requirement. Moreover, the academic journal article estimates that “twenty-one million registered and otherwise qualified voters, approximately eleven percent of the national total, may now be disenfranchised” (Trotter 515) due to a lack of government-issued identification ownership. In consideration of historical precedent toward voting rights by the Supreme Court, this decision broke from it and ended up “failing to accord the right to vote its appropriate structural significance” (Trotter 560), arguably due to the conservative nature. The numbers undoubtedly show that such decisions toward voting rights simply disqualify millions of people around the country from being able to cast a ballot. In 2010, after the midterm elections which had a low turnout rate, Republicans won control of a large amount of state legislatures, and the period thereafter …show more content…
and unenthusiastic voters, a plan that would be fostered through a student-run organization on campus. Similar to the philosophy of Vote Smart, there must be a compromise within the initiative to accept that direct action technically occurs only through actual politicians, and with an issue such as voting laws towards criminals, nothing can be done outside of advocacy. The basis of such an organization would have to be built upon the foundation of spreading information about the issue, but I will move on to further detail specific collective