Ted Cruz
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But do you know who has rejected their disingenuous claim that photo ID to vote is Jim Crow?
The Supreme Court of the United States.
The Supreme Court of the United States, the state of Indiana, passed
photo ID law requiring that you show a photo ID to vote.
A group of left-wing plaintiffs filed litigation challenging that.
The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
At the time, I was the Solicitor General of the state of Texas.
I led a coalition of states before the Supreme Court defending photo ID to vote.
And the left-wing plaintiffs made the same argument that our Democrat colleagues make today.
that requiring photo ID to vote would somehow disenfranchise minorities, the Supreme Court, by a vote of six to three, rejected their argument.
The author of the majority opinion was John Paul Stevens.
John Paul Stevens was one of the great liberals on the court.
He was not a conservative.
He was not on the right wing.
He was the leading liberal for years on the U.S.
Supreme Court.
He rejected that claim, and he pointed out that when someone votes illegally,
They are stealing the votes of legal voters.
They are stealing the votes of American citizens.
The Supreme Court explained that when photo ID laws have been implemented, minority participation in the election goes up, not down.