In a surprise move at the close of a two-week trial, lawyers representing the commonwealth of Pennsylvania said the state is willing to extend the injunction of the voter ID law through the coming November election.
At the end of her closing argument, Alicia Hickok, a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath, told Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard McGinley that, considering the pressure and tension during the first challenge to the law as it bounced between the trial and appeals courts last year, the state would agree to extend the injunction in order to allow the court time to fully consider the case.
