Ellison files brief in Supreme Court voter ID case
Associated Press – November 16, 2007 3:14 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) – Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison has filed a brief with the Supreme Court in a voter ID case. The Minnesota Democrat is asking the court to strike down an Indiana law that requires people to have a photo ID to vote, arguing it disenfranchises black voters.
This is Ellison’s latest effort to make his mark on voting rights issues.
Last month, the freshman congressman introduced legislation that would ban the ID requirement in federal elections.
Ellison filed the brief with the support of all of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including presidential candidate Barack Obama, a Democratic senator from Illinois.
In the brief, Ellison argues that the tax violates the 24th Amendment’s ban on poll or other taxes to vote.
Mr. Ellison, please keep your nose in Minnesota where it belongs. Maybe he’s worried about all of the illegal Mexicans that now cannot vote democrat.
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Keith “Hakim” Eillison has been called “Louis Farrakhan’s
First Congressman” because of his involvement with the Nation of Islam. He is an unsavory character who has been on the wrong side of the law and is exactly the kind of politician that gets elected by Democrats. He has the support of the terrorist-linked Islamic group known as CAIR.
If you really want to get the whole story on this sorry excuse for a politician, google “Keith Ellison, powerlineblog”.
In indiana, there is no charge for the voter I.D. To compare this law to a poll tax is ridiculous.