Ninety percent of the ACLU’s cases are brought in federal court, Witold Walczak estimated, but he pushed to file one of the biggest to come up in recent years in Pennsylvania state court.
So far, it’s proven to be the right call. In January, the Commonwealth Court issued a permanent injunction to the state’s law requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls. It will almost certainly be appealed to the state’s Supreme Court, which was skeptical of the law on its first trip up the appellate ladder just before the last presidential election.
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