APPEALS COURT-TEXAS VOTER ID LAW DISCRIMINATES

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[LonePirate]

1. It will be nice to have that law off the books in November, despite a likely appeal to SCOTUS.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. If it's confined to the 5th District it won't have much of an impact

Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi is pretty red.

[LonePirate]

3. On a House seat or a local level, this ruling could have a big impact outside of statewide races.

[Stallion]

6. There is a Lawsuit in Just About Every Circuit in the Country With a Restrictive Voter ID Law

what is special about this victory is that the 5th Circuit is perhaps the most conservative circuit with a 10-5 Republican advantage. This is about as good as Democrats could hope for out of that Circuit

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

[Gothmog]

5. Here is a link to the opinion

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

[riversedge]

7. Reuters: U.S. appeals court finds that Texas voter ID law is discriminatory

Wed Jul 20, 2016 3:20pm EDT

U.S. appeals court finds that Texas voter ID law is discriminatory


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-texasvoting-idUSKCN1002KJ

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a Texas law requiring voters to show a government-issued form of photo identification before casting a ballot is discriminatory and violates the U.S. Voting Rights Act.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit also sent the case back to a district court to examine claims by the plaintiffs that the law had a discriminatory purpose.

Critics of the law and others like it passed in recent years in Republican-governed states said such statutes are intended to make it harder for minorities such as African-Americans and Hispanics who tend to back Democrats to vote. Backers of these laws say they are necessary to prevent voter fraud.

The New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit asked the district court for a short-term fix to be used in Texas in the November general election.

"Therefore, to avoid disruption of the upcoming election, we rely on equitable principles in concluding that the district court should first focus on fashioning interim relief for the discriminatory effect violation in the months leading up to the November 2016 general election," it said......................