{"id":2205,"date":"2020-12-14T20:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=139279"},"modified":"2020-12-14T20:29:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:29:42","slug":"aclu-comment-on-supreme-court-action-on-kansas-voting-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/14\/aclu-comment-on-supreme-court-action-on-kansas-voting-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Action on Kansas Voting Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The Supreme Court will not review a ruling that concluded&nbsp;a Kansas voting law crafted by former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was unconstitutional and violated the National Voter Registration Act, commonly referred to as the \u201cmotor-voter law.\u201d The case is Schwab v. Fish.<\/p>\n<p>A federal court struck down the law in 2018. That ruling was upheld by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this year. Kansas appealed to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Kansas, and Dechert LLP had challenged the law on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Kansas and individual Kansans.<\/p>\n<p>The law illegally mandated documentary proof of citizenship (such as a birth certificate or passport) to register to vote, and blocked more than 30,000 Kansans from registering to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Dale Ho, director of the ACLU\u2019s Voting Rights Project, argued the case and had this reaction to today\u2019s Supreme Court action:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTens of thousands of Kansas voters were illegally denied the most fundamental right in our democracy because of this law. The Supreme Court\u2019s decision not to review the case will finally close this chapter on Kris Kobach\u2019s sorry legacy of voter suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Order:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/121420zor_8n59.pdf\">https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/121420zor_8n59.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/aclu-comment-supreme-court-action-kansas-voting-lawsuit\">https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/aclu-comment-supreme-court-action-kansas-voting-lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Case details: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/cases\/fish-v-schwab-formerly-fish-v-kobach\">https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/cases\/fish-v-schwab-formerly-fish-v-kobach<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/14\/aclu-comment-on-supreme-court-action-on-kansas-voting-lawsuit\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The Supreme Court will not review a ruling that concluded\u00a0a Kansas voting law crafted by former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was unconstitutional and violated\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}