Instapundit:

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS Indiana’s voter ID law: “The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights.” Seems reasonable to me.

Amazingly, it didn’t to three justices.

Why do I have a feeling — without the decision being available yet — I can guess who they [Souter-Stevens-Ginsberg-Breyer] are?

UPDATE: Stevens actually wrote the majority opinion, interestingly.  Jack Balkin writes:

In Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, the Supreme Court continues a trend of using technical doctrines of facial challenges to swat away constitutional litigation and drive questions back to the political process. Whether you think that is a good or a bad thing depends on your view of whether the Indiana legislature was essentially limiting access to the ballot to certain classes of voters in order to help the Republican Party stay in power. If you think that the political process will take care of enfranchising these voters, you need not worry too much about the result. If, on the other hand, you think that the political process is being used to build in advantages for one party over another, there is greater reason to be concerned.

That’s his first paragraph, his topic paragraph. He uses the word “constitutional” once, and never in a substantive way. In other words, Balkin does not like the policy of the U.S. Supreme Court. But he doesn’t seem to have much of a constitutional or legal argument — spot the word “technical”? — to make.

After what amounts to a multiyear campaign of harassment, an Arkansas boy named Billy Wolfe and his parents have filed lawsuits against schoolyard bullies, according to coverage in the New York Times, the Northwest Arkansas Times, and elsewhere. The kid even appeared on the Today Show to tell his story.

Honestly, the whole storyline — “Bully sues his tormentors!!” sounds like something out of Weekly World News, somewhere behind the pages about alien Elvis impersonators running for president. But it’s not. It’s as real as the various little monsters who over the past decade-plus have taken up arms and slaughtered their classmates for slights real and imagined.

And when I try to think about what the kid is supposed to do about the bullies, that’s exactly what I think of. The school shootings. A lawsuit against the bullies (and possibly against the school administration) seems to outlandish and disproportionate that I’ve spent the better part of a week trying to figure out what Billy and his parents are supposed to do about the bullying.

But I can’t come up with anything better than the lawsuit. They’ve exhausted their legal self-help remedies. Billy’s parents talked to the bully’s parents, to no avail. Billy turned to school administrators, but he found no succor. In fact, he was blamed — and the bullies escaped punishment — in at least one of the incidents! With these remedies denied him, what’s left? Self-defense? Perhaps, though I’m not certain if he’s tried (and failed) that remedy.

Hitting back — the traditional, parent-endorsed response to such things — is right out. That sort of thing is illegal. Assault and battery. Responding to the harassment campaign — which included a Facebook page dedicated to hating Billy — may or may not be effective. And, again, it’s probably illegal.

If a friend of mine finds himself the target of a long, multiyear campaign of harassment and he’s had no luck getting it stopped on his own, I would likely tell him he should turn to the court system. Injunctions, restraining orders, and defamation lawsuits can be highly useful things. And Billy has taken the same route.

And then there’s the school shootings. When some of these bullied kids have had enough, some have turned on their tormentors with violent results. Which would be bad enough. But those kids — Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris among them — lash out not just at their tormentors, but at nearly anybody who gets in their way. Despite the outward ridiculousness of Billy’s lawsuit, perhaps his choice is the better alternative.

UPDATE:  Hmm.  (RDC)