Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Texas Voter ID Law

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

A majority of the full U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the heavily litigated and controversial Texas voter ID law does have the effect of discriminating against minority voters, and ordered the state to devise a remedy to that problem before the November elections.

"We conclude that the district court did not clearly err in determining that SB 14 has a discriminatory effect on minorities’ voting rights in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act," the court majority wrote.

The unexpected ruling against the Republican-backed voter ID law by the conservative appeals court came as it faced a Supreme-Court-imposed deadline of Wednesday to rule in the case.

The ruling was not a complete victory for voting rights activists. A second basis for challenging the law – that its purpose is to discriminate against minority voters – was sent back to the lower court for further review. The appeals court said the additional review should wait until after the November elections.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/texas-voter-id-law-struck-down

[Gothmog]

1. There are multiple dissents

Here is the link to the opinion which is over 200 pages with dissents and a concurrence https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2995942-Voter-ID-Opinion-5th-Circuit-July.html I just scanned the remedy section and a couple of paragraphs of the dissents. I want to bottle the tears of Edith Jones and Priscilla Owen reflected in these dissents

[lark]

2. Does anyone think that TX will actually comply?

I don't. I think those racist rednecks will think that Trump will win and will refuse to cooperate thinking he'll let them off the hook.
Hope I'm wrong and they will stop these unconstitutional voter restrictions and schemes, but I'd be shocked if they do.

[argyl]

5. They will. They were told to comply before the November election.

They may speak publicly of Trump being our next president because he will carry Texas but in private they know their boy will take a real beating in November.

And a Clinton Presidency will take a dim view of their thumbing their noses at a ruling designed to strike down their attempts to disenfranchise voters.

[L. Coyote]

3. Great, the remedy ordered before November. Plus a review ordered.

[SheriffBob]

4. Will this go to the unsupreme court before potus election?

Duh!