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[quote=FruminousBandersnatch][quote=Anonymous][quote=FruminousBandersnatch][quote=Anonymous]Just pair background checks with mandatory voter ID and it will pass.

If one of the two gets overturned in court then the law sunsets.

It's compromise.[/quote]

When you're talking about Constitutional rights it doesn't work like that. Each has to overcome the court's balancing test on its own merits.

So far, in-person voter ID laws have failed that balancing test.

For the most part, we can't get reasonable gun laws passed because of the disproportionate influence of a vocal minority of voters led by the NRA (not surprisingly, there's a significant overlap between those who are in favor of in-person voter ID laws and those who fear that any regulation of guns is the first step towards confiscation, disarmament and the triumph of the fascist, communist, crypto-Islamists seeking to bring Sharia law to God's country), so those laws aren't even getting reviewed by the courts.[/quote]

Getting things done require major compromise.  Otherwise nothin gonna happen.[/quote]

It's not a question of compromise, it's simply a function of the way our government works. The courts would evaluate each of those things in isolation to determine whether they are Constitutional.

For the same reason you couldn't trade gun regulation for restricting the freedom of speech or religion in a certain way.

Even if it could work that way, given the proposal that if one was found unconstitutional the other would sunset, and given that courts are already striking down voter ID laws, that's not much of an offer.[/quote]

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