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 DOJs 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 DOJs 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 ...
WINNING
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!!!
win
Yes! More winning!
Hurray for America!
Be better to continue on and blow the case. Then the law would be upheld by the court.
Houston is the warning sign for 2018 and 2020; liberals there are more organized and likely to win than ever before.
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.
All the more reason to purge the illegals from the voter rolls, lest TX become CA East.
Need to get rid of that claim, too. "Discriminatory effect" is a BS objection.
The reversal ... is a clear sign of the DOJ’s direction under Attorney General Jeff Sessionsa longtime advocate of voter ID laws and other voting restrictions.
Yes! Quote is from an MSN article I just read.
Great, now restore the NC Voter ID law overturned by a Federal Judge.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article92593512.html
Trump kept saying during the campaign that a lot of these things wouldn't take long to make better. I believed him.
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