> The Brennan Center for Justice and other groups estimated in a 2023 report that 9% of U.S. citizens of voting age, or 21.3 million people, do not have proof of their citizenship readily available. Almost half of Americans do not have a U.S. passport.

I would expect this not to have alignment solely to D voters but there does seem to be implicit belief these are mostly D voters. I don't get it, because I would think rust belt R working poor lack a passport or modern photo ID since they are costly intrusions into the state.

If you argued excluded (prison) voters tend D I wouldn't disagree. But lacking ID seems more neutral.

The law is asymmetrical. The ruling power decides whom it applies to and whom it doesn't.

Wilhoit's law: [0]

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

> There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

[0] https://systemicunlearning.substack.com/p/wilhoits-law-there...