Texas' previously overruled racist voter restriction SB14 may get another go w/Trump picks (illegal aliens, Hispanics)
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This will be Jeff Sessions first test. He has hired John Gore as assistant, he argued in the defense of NC's LGBT law.
The courts have ruled and went so far as to call Texas voter ID law as racist but they are attempting to work out an agreement.
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Hours after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, the Department of Justice filed to postpone a hearing on the Texas Voter ID law. The request was granted.
The DOJ had previously argued that the law intentionally discriminated against minority voters, but told the court it needed additional time for the new administration to “brief the new leadership of the Department on this case and the issues to be addressed at that hearing before making any representations to the Court.” [...]
Myrna Perez is the deputy director of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program and leader of the center’s Voting Rights and Elections project. The Brennan Center was also set to offer oral arguments against the ID law on Tuesday, and Perez said she was “disappointed” with the DOJ’s decision to postpone the hearing.
As often as I have asked, I have never had anyone properly explain how requiring a photo ID of EVERYONE is discriminatory to minority groups .
Just makes no sense .
In Texas, you must show proof of Citizenship to get a Government issued Photo ID - i.e. TX Drivers License.
That is "discriminatory" to Illegal Aliens in Texas who want to Vote.
LOL!!! The Trump Train keeps on making the stops to take on more passengers and drop off the casualties.
That is not the only unconstitutional issues that will be reheard and the text of the Constitution enforced. Not what some political "I think it should be like that", even though it does not remotely say anything close to that, nor ever intended to mean it.
I would be willing to bet that people who would consider themselves victimized by having to have a legit voter ID doesn't have any problem getting to the welfare office to get bennies .
Below is the decision from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals back in July confirming the District Courts ruling. This was the voter ID law that Texas put in place immediately after the Supreme Court removed the requirement for pre-clearance of state actions under the Voting Rights Act in 2013.
Pretty obvious that they went out of their way to discriminate if you read parts of the 200 page decision, looking at the percentages you can see their intent and they never addressed mail-in ballots. Some of the plaintiffs could have voted by mail but they couldn't vote in person.
Applying this inherently flawedtwo-part test, the majority approves the district court’s finding that SB 14 "disparately impacts" racial minority voters because they are "more likely than their Anglo peers to lack"qualifying ID. The underlying findings were that 2% of Anglos, 5.9% ofHispanics,and 8.1% of Blacks comprise the 4.5% of Texas voters who lack SB 14 IDs.The majority cites exactly three individuals—Floyd Carrier, Sammie Louise Bates, and Gordon Benjamin—who were unable to cast ballots because they lacked SB 14ID when they went to vote. The majority agrees with thedistrict court that the law’s ameliorative provisions, including the free EIC available at DMV offices (which Sammie Louise Bateseventually obtained),a "strict disability exemption" from the SB14 requirement and the alternative of mail-in ballots,are "burdensome"and thus ineffective alternatives.
Moreover, evidenceshowed that nine of the fourteen plaintiffs(including Floyd Carrier and Gordon Benjamin) were qualified to vote by mail, but they did not want to. It is a mystery why the majority goes out of itsway to criticize the use of mail-in ballots for hundreds of thousands of seniorcitizens. No court has ever held that a voter has a right to cast a ballot by the method of his choice.
In order to prevent voter fraud, the State has pushed more vulnerable elderly voters away from in-person voting—a form of voting with little proven incidence of fraud—and toward mail-in voting, which the record shows is far more vulnerable to fraud, particularly among the elderly.
Last edited by Goodnight; 01-21-2017 at 03:37 PM..
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