…as we were back here, it seems that a federal judge has blocked Georgia from requiring that new $20 photo ID to let people vote in the state after all.

In issuing the preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy said the law amounts to an unconstitutional poll tax because the state is not doing enough to make ID cards available to those who cannot afford them.

The requirement "is most likely to prevent Georgia's elderly, poor and African-American voters from voting," Murphy wrote. "For those citizens, the character and magnitude of their injury - the loss of their right to vote - is undeniably demoralizing and extreme."

So far, the law has been used only for local elections. The injunction could prevent its use during municipal elections Nov. 8.

What's really scary is how much the opposition sounds like the same Georgians who were formerly opposed to all those Black people voting, too, except that now they have a friend in a high place:

Supporters of the law said they would challenge the ruling.

"We'll appeal it until the Supreme Court makes a decision. Hopefully by then the president will have a good conservative court up there that understands the will of the people," said Republican state Sen. Don Balfour.

Georgia's never been all that good at recognizing the rights of a minority segment of the population over "the will of the people," has it?