Posted on 07/08/2017 10:20:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Department of Justice will withdraw from a legal challenge to Texas’ voter ID law, after the state legislature enacted several legislative fixes to the law to assuage the Department’s concerns.
Reuters reports that the Department filed a motion informing the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas that it would withdraw from a challenge to the law because the state’s new amendment to the statute “removes any ‘discriminatory effect’ or intent the Court found … and advances Texas’s legitimate ‘policy objectives’ in adopting a voter ID law.” The amendment Texas adopted eased some of the law’s photo identification requirements. […]
“The Department of Justice has completed the conversion from a vote protector to a vote suppressor,” said Matt Angle, director of the left-wing Lone Star Project. “By completely reversing its position on the discriminatory Texas voter ID law, the Trump/Sessions DOJ is now openly hostile to the notion of African Americans and Hispanics fairly participating in elections in Texas.” …
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Badges? Badges? Yes you need those steenkin’ badges.
Way to go Texas!
Praise be to YHVH. Lawful law, was endorsed; in USA?!
Great News!
Good news. We have to show ID to do every single thing involving the government; why should voting be any different.
The only people who would object are those who want to enable voter fraud.
Oh wait!! So that’s why the left objects so strenuously!
Like we all didn’t know that already. This needs to spread across all 50 states like wildfire. Oops; maybe a bad choice of words with all the fires going on right now.
“... This needs to spread across all 50 states ...”
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Georgia has had a strict photo ID requirement for voting for many years, now.
Great.
Now maybe Texas will do the intelligent thing and scrap the motor-voter registration law.
That’s racis’!! Where in the world are the oppressed minorities supposed to come up with IDs in the next 2 years?!?!?! Impossible!!!
Hillary would have cleared it too...and Trump is still a jerk. And on top of that, Hillary would have put someone even MORE conservative than Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
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The purveyors of #FakeNews would be more than willing to give the suppressed voters some #FakeIDs.
Wow! A #FakeNeverTrumper!
You’re gonna make the fakin’ media suffer from confusion.
No mas Elecciones de aparejos, amigos.
Adios Bendejos
What - blacks and hispanics incapable of procuring legal identification cards? Really?
Anyone who would stand up and speak such a bald faced, slanderous lie, is nothing more than a domestic terrorist, bent on destroying this nation.
HOORAY Texas
HOORAY DoJ.
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president
What about California?...oh, wait
Jumping through hoops ALERT!
Any flea market in Texas, 15 bucks gets you a Texas ID, you supply the name, they do the rest.
LOL!
Scrap motor voter and all voting outside of the proper polling place and day with the only exception being Military.
Oh, for Christ’s sake, can the race card. If you’re too stupid or lazy to get an ID, which you already have if you have an EBT card, just maybe you’re too stupid or lazy to cast a conscious vote. These deadbeats will vote any way they are told if they are promised some kind of goody in return.
F ‘em. They need to be able to participate in society in order to have a voice. Photo ID, proof of residence, finger in ink. This is pure, unadulterated, in-your-face BS.
I’m for only landowners being able to vote, as they are the only ones with skin in the game.
so what were the “fixes” that satisfied the TX DOJ ???
“Illegal aliens will be exempt from this law” ??? What ???
Good news indeed that the DOJ has seen the light and has withdrawn opposition to an improved Texas voter ID law. Yet are we celebrating to soon as the matter is still before the US District Court and could be struck down?
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