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Date: April 28th, 2008

Media bias in full glory, yet again.

28 April, 2008 (09:59) | Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

In writing that previous post on the Supreme Court ruling on voter ID laws, I had to shake my head again over the blatant bias present in the story I read. Mark Sherman, the AP reporter who wrote this thing, ought to be ashamed. Given that we’re talking about 1) a member of the journalistic [...]

Supreme Court rules photo ID laws for voting are Constitutional

28 April, 2008 (04:35) | Law, Politics | By: ricjames

The Supreme Court has upheld an Indiana law requiring people to show photo ID’s before being allowed to cast a vote in an election. In a 6-3 ruling, the Justices have backed the law as a valid protection against fraud: The law “is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting ‘the integrity and reliability [...]