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Justice Department withdraws Obama-era challenge to Texas voter ID law
washingtontimes ^ | Andrea Noble

Posted on 02/27/2017 1:09:00 PM PST by davikkm

The Justice Department is reversing course in a long-running lawsuit over a Texas voter identification law — a significant shift under President Trump that comes four years after Obama administration lawyers joined civil rights groups in their challenge of the Texas law. The Justice Department on Monday informed attorneys for a civil rights group challenging the voter ID law that the government plans to file court papers to withdraw the DOJ’s discriminatory purpose claim. The move to dismiss its claim that the Texas law was adopted with a discriminatory purpose is not an outright withdrawal of the Justice Department from the case — the DOJ’s claim that the law had a discriminatory effect remains intact. But the distinction is significant, according to Gerry Hebert of the Campaign Legal Center, because if a judge rules that Texas lawmakers acted with discriminatory intent when they adopted the law in 2011, Texas could potentially end up back on the list of states required to obtain pre-clearance from the federal government before changing election laws.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; id; justicedepartment; obama

1 posted on 02/27/2017 1:09:01 PM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

WINNING


2 posted on 02/27/2017 1:11:50 PM PST by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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To: davikkm

It’s happening a whole lot faster than any of us thought possible....
What is? REPAIRING the damage Obama The Destroyer did to this country!!!


3 posted on 02/27/2017 1:12:46 PM PST by davikkm
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To: Lazmataz

win


4 posted on 02/27/2017 1:22:16 PM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: davikkm

Yes! More winning!


5 posted on 02/27/2017 1:23:41 PM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: davikkm

Hurray for America!


6 posted on 02/27/2017 1:34:21 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: davikkm

Be better to continue on and blow the case. Then the law would be upheld by the court.


7 posted on 02/27/2017 1:34:53 PM PST by ChiefJayStrongbow
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To: davikkm

Houston is the warning sign for 2018 and 2020; liberals there are more organized and likely to win than ever before.


8 posted on 02/27/2017 1:35:16 PM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: rhinohunter
The article's last paragraph says what it's all about:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in July that the law violated the federal Voting Rights Act, but it did not toss out the law in its entirety. Instead, in a 9-6 ruling, the 5th Circuit remanded the case back to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Judge Ramos, who originally found in 2014 that the law was unconstitutional and was passed by Texas lawmakers with the intent to discriminate, was asked to re-evaluate whether the Texas Legislature acted with a discriminatory intent. She is also tasked with overseeing changes to the law that would allow the state to safeguard the integrity of its elections while not discriminating against minority voters.

9 posted on 02/27/2017 1:48:03 PM PST by libstripper (nd)
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To: Theodore R.
Houston is the warning sign for 2018 and 2020; liberals there are more organized and likely to win than ever before.

All the more reason to purge the illegals from the voter rolls, lest TX become CA East.

10 posted on 02/27/2017 1:50:23 PM PST by libstripper (nd)
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To: rhinohunter
the DOJ’s claim that the law had a discriminatory effect remains intact.

Need to get rid of that claim, too. "Discriminatory effect" is a BS objection.

11 posted on 02/27/2017 1:52:34 PM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is VERY Fake News)
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To: davikkm

The reversal ... is a clear sign of the DOJ’s direction under Attorney General Jeff Sessions—a longtime advocate of voter ID laws and other voting restrictions.

Yes! Quote is from an MSN article I just read.


12 posted on 02/27/2017 2:40:18 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: davikkm

Great, now restore the NC Voter ID law overturned by a Federal Judge.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article92593512.html


13 posted on 02/27/2017 3:26:36 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: davikkm
It’s happening a whole lot faster than any of us thought possible....

Trump kept saying during the campaign that a lot of these things wouldn't take long to make better. I believed him.

14 posted on 02/27/2017 5:54:56 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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