Posted on 10/14/2014 3:08:10 PM PDT by cotton1706
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated Texas' tough voter ID law for the November election, which the U.S. Justice Department had condemned as the state's latest means of suppressing minority voter turnout.
The ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi, who determined the law unconstitutional and similar to a poll tax designed to dissuade minorities from voting.
The 5th Circuit did not rule on the merits of the law; instead, it determined it's too late to change the rules for the upcoming election. Early voting starts Oct. 20.
The law remains under appeal. For now, the ruling is a key victory for Republican-backed photo ID measures that have swept across the U.S. in recent years. The Texas law, considered the toughest of its kind in the nation, requires that an estimated 13.6 million registered Texas voters will need one of seven kinds of photo identification to cast a ballot.
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Finally! a bit of good news.
LOL - EXCELLENT!!!!!
Daggummit! Why can’t someone do that for Wisconsin?
I am sure, even now, some commie-pinko lawyers are shopping for equally commie-pinko judges to file an injunction against it being applied until the appeal can be appealed...
Bttt
No doubt.
Get it done, Texas.
Couldn’t they have waited til election eve?
By next week Democrats will have this over turned....again
That's preposterous on its face.
WHAM! That’ll leave a mark on the Left’s ego.
good luck getting around an Appeals court, even Commie Judges don’t like getting overruled and trying another injunction would get a serious slapdown and talking to from the Appeals Court
photo ID measures work here in TN. It’s a lot better than it was, some in the past have shown up to vote, only to see that they had already voted....
Thomas, Alito and Scalia dissented in the Wisconsin case which was a one page ruling allowing voters in Wisconsin to vote without having ID. THE SCOTUS did not rule on the constitutionality of the Wisconsin voter ID though. Still it is very troubling to follow what the SCOTUS has been doing of late.
one of seven kinds of photo identification to cast a ballot.
OMG! Where is an undocumented alien going to get one
in time to vote democrat? It’s not fffffair! /s
Take a hike racist judge! Her minority supremacism was stifled. Blacks, Hispanics, whites and others, go get your photo IDs if you wish to vote. Don't just "show up"
Rand Paul - deeply saddened
Hurray for the Home Team!
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi
Dumb ass...
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