G. K. Butterfield: “The real cost of voter ID in the State... puts a tremendous burden on the State and local boards of election without the…”

I had spent thirty years in a courtroom before coming to Congress, and, you know, in a courtroom, the rules are so much different than the rules for ethics for Members of Congress.

We want to minimize opportunities for misinformation, and we want to minimize opportunities to overturn an election.

Now the Supreme Court is going to have to decide whether or not State courts have any authority whatsoever over election laws within the State.

What was struck down was Section 4, which is the formula that decides which States, which counties, which cities are included in Section 5.