The primary election in Indiana has come and gone. Voters had to show photo identification, the same as in other recent
elections, but it was the first since the nation's highest court upheld the almost three-year-old state statute requiring
specific ID at the polls.
The chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court visited students at the Notre Dame Law School this morning for a one-day appointment to the James J. Clynes Visiting Chair at the school.
Faced with a question the U. S. Supreme Court declined to address more than 35 years ago, the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed a trial court's decision to dismiss a criminal charge against a committed woman who may never be able to stand trial because of incompetence.
The Supreme Court of the United States is now being asked to weigh in on Indiana's two-year-old voter identification law.