Capozzi also said that the plaintiffs don’t have the right to pursue the action.
Capozzi said, “Even though the appellants say that a lot of people won’t be able to vote under HB1878, they couldn’t show the trial court a single person who couldn’t vote because of the law.”
“That’s something that the other side’s lawyer says: if there is no standing, how can we agree with the lower court’s decision that the bill is constitutional?” Powell asked.
Nimrod Chapel Jr., president of the Missouri NAACP, said after the hearing that the state is once again defending laws that make it tougher for people to vote.
Chapel remarked, “I can’t believe you would make it illegal for people to ask or suggest that other citizens vote.” “It’s confusing.” It’s shocking and surprising.
The photo ID requirement will stay in force if the Supreme Court agrees with the lower court’s decision in the first case.
On Wednesday, the justices also heard a second lawsuit on other parts of the same 2022 law that deal with getting people to register to vote and reaching out to them.
The clauses in question say that workers can’t be paid to look for voter registration applications, that registration workers must be Missouri voters over the age of 18, and that they can’t try to get people to sign up for absentee ballots. Continue reading…
