coalition of the usual suspects has challenged a Georgia law that would require voters to present a government-issued photo ID in order to vote. Here, from the ACLU's website , is a list:

In addition to the NAACP, other organizations represented in the lawsuit include: Common Cause/Georgia, the League of Women Voters of Georgia, the Central Presbyterian Outreach and Advocacy Center, the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus and Concerned Black Clergy of Metropolitan Atlanta. Groups providing legal counsel to the effort include the ACLU, AARP, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Any such law, opponents argue, would disproportionately handicap minorities, the elderly, and the poor.

Wouldn't you think they'd be embarrassed to argue this? For heaven's sake, you need a photo ID to fly on an airplane, purchase wine or beer, rent a car, cash a check, and do a thousand other daily activities of modern life that are not limited to the middle and upper classes. Georgia passed a nearly identical statute last year but it was invalidated by a federal judge because it would have required the poor to pay the fee to get a driver's license. Georgia then changed the law to provide the IDs free of charge. But the ACLU et. al. are still at it.

Is it really because they worry about the effect on minorities? Or is it closer to what Democratic congressional candidate Francine Busby blurted out at a campaign stop last month in San Diego before a Hispanic crowd: "You don't need papers to vote."

The ACLU is the enemy within.