Missouri State photo ID card is $12. Don’t say $12 is out of reach for some folks. That much can be picked up recycling beer cans, or going without a couple of BigMac meals. A valid birth certificate is proof of citizenship - amazingly almost no one has trouble getting a birth certificate and social security card and filling out the forms to receive benefits from the Department of Social Services or Social Security.

“… submitted an amicus brief…” ACLU does that all the time doesn’t it?

This may come as a shock to democrats but I know several “minorities and poor people” who vote republican. Their reasoning for voting republican may be somewhat skewered but nonetheless they vote republican.

Democrats seem to think proof of ID is a hardship for poor and minorities and I see more and more minorities and poor folks who don’t want to be associated with a party whose followers are that hard up, whose followers are so ignorant they can’t perform the simple steps of identifying themselves.

Where once the Democratic party may have been the champions for the poor, the underdog, the victimized - more and more they give the impression they represent the dregs of society. That last phrase may jerk a few knees - how dare anyone say there are dregs in American society.