The fight against voter ID laws has gotten quite a boost in the last month from a series of district and circuit court cases. What Supreme Court case from the most recent Term has popped up in the district-court decision overturning Wisconsin’s voter ID law, the Fourth Circuit opinion ending the North Carolina voter ID law, and the Fifth Circuit concurrence striking down Texas’s voter ID law ?
Hint: Though the case in question was not about voting rights, it stands for the principle that when laws infringe on constitutional rights, courts do not have to blindly accept the factual assertions legislatures make to justify the laws.
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