Unbelievable! Pennsylvania Supreme Court remands voter ID case back to the Republican trial court judge who ignored the evidence

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

As the Bard would say, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark Pennsylvania." The Pennsylvania Supreme Court today, rather than ruling on that state's voter ID law as the state's highest court, instead remanded the case back to the Republican trial court judge who ignored the evidence at trial and ordered him to take further evidence in the case. Unbelievable! Pennsylvania voter ID law sent back to lower court:

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday called for more hearings on whether a new Republican-backed voter ID law can be implemented this fall without disenfranchising voters who currently lack the needed photo identification.

The decision (.pdf) drew
sharp rebukes from two of the six justices. They said it was already
clear that some legitimate voters could not secure the needed ID in time
for the election.

“I have heard enough about the Commonwealth’s scramble to meet this
law’s requirements,” wrote Justice Debra McCloskey Todd. “There is ample
evidence of disarray in the record, and I would not allow chaos to
begat chaos.”

But the majority returned the case to Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson, who had earlier ruled that
the state could get the needed photo identification to voters who now
lack it. It said Simpson should look again at the facts, and report back
by Oct. 2.

“If the Commonwealth Court is not still convinced in
its predictive judgment that there will be no voter disenfranchisement
arising out of the Commonwealth’s implementation of a voter
identification requirement for purposes of the upcoming election, that
court is obliged to enter a preliminary injunction,” said the court’s
unsigned opinion.

A state Supreme Court passes the buck to a lower court judge. . . what is going on here?

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1 thought on “Unbelievable! Pennsylvania Supreme Court remands voter ID case back to the Republican trial court judge who ignored the evidence”

  1. At least people in Pennsylvania are working hard to get photo IDs into the hands of the many people (incredible numbers in Philadelphia) who lack them. Many of them, of course, are in the 47% it’s Romney’s job not to care about.

    I am not hopeful about the courts here, but I don’t think Romney will be competitive in Pennsylvania anyway, though Nate Silver says it’s probably the best state for him to gamble some money on. With Virginia slipping away from Romney, he and the superPACs may spend some money there.

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