--- title: Voter ID Laws Blocked in Wisconsin, Texas description: The Supreme Court and a lower court blocked voter identification laws inWisconsin and Texas Thursday. canonical: https://time.com/3489872/supreme-court-voter-id/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-10T12:16:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:42:38.710Z article:section: Politics og:title: Voter ID Laws Blocked in Wisconsin, Texas og:description: The Supreme Court and a lower court blocked voter identification laws inWisconsin and Texas Thursday. og:url: https://time.com/3489872/supreme-court-voter-id/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb26fcb40b6ce4b62/69875fdb06f2c1471133142a/voting-texas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: U.S. Citizens Head To The Polls To Vote In Presidential Election og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Voter ID Laws Blocked in Wisconsin, Texas twitter:description: The Supreme Court and a lower court blocked voter identification laws inWisconsin and Texas Thursday. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb26fcb40b6ce4b62/69875fdb06f2c1471133142a/voting-texas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Courts Shoot Down Voter ID Laws in Texas and Wisconsin > Sponsored content. 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Tom Pennington—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Oct 10, 2014 12:16 PM UTC The Supreme Court and a lower court blocked voter identification laws in Wisconsin and Texas Thursday, clearing the way for hundreds of thousands of voters in both states to have easier access to the polls as next month’s midterm elections loom near. The laws are two of many passed by several states recently in what supporters say are intended to clamp down on voter fraud, but detractors argue the rules are discriminatory and illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday blocked Wisconsin’s voter identification from taking effect, reversing a lower court order to let the law stand during next month’s midterm elections in a 6-3 ruling. Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented, saying it’s troubling that the change comes so close to the midterms. Voter rights advocates, however, praised the ruling, with Dale Ho of the American Civil Liberties Union saying in a statement that it will “help safeguard the vote for thousands of Wisconsinites.” The ACLU is among the groups challenging Wisconsin’s voter ID law. The Supreme Court’s ruling came down as a district court in Texas found that state’s similar voter identification law discriminated against black and Latino voters, violating the Voting Rights Act. The federal government and a slew of advocacy groups brought a suit to fight Texas’ law, which the state implemented just hours after last summer’s Supreme Court decision striking down a portion of the Voting Rights Act that required Texas and several other states to get federal government approval before implementing new voting laws. In a [statement](http://www.brennancenter.org/press-release/victory-texas-voters-restrictive-photo-id-law-blocked-federal-court), Texas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Gary Bledsoe said voting rights advocates are “greatly encouraged by today’s decision.” However, the state of Texas said it will “immediately appeal” the ruling, according to a [statement](https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/oagnews/release.php?id=4866) from the state attorney general’s office. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3489872/supreme-court-voter-id/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3489872/supreme-court-voter-id/"},"headline":"Courts Shoot Down Voter ID Laws in Texas and Wisconsin","datePublished":"2014-10-10T12:16:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:42:38.710Z","description":"Some say voter ID laws are discriminatory, while others argue they prevent voter fraud","url":"https://time.com/3489872/supreme-court-voter-id/","keywords":["2014 elections","Voting","2014 Election","voting rights"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb26fcb40b6ce4b62/69875fdb06f2c1471133142a/voting-texas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb26fcb40b6ce4b62/69875fdb06f2c1471133142a/voting-texas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. Citizens Head To The Polls To Vote In Presidential Election","caption":"A polling location in Lipan, Texas seen during the last presidential elections in 2012.","creditText":"Tom Pennington—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2014-elections/","name":"2014 elections"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3489872/supreme-court-voter-id/","name":"Courts Shoot Down Voter ID Laws in Texas and Wisconsin"}}]}] ```