BREAKING : Trump Administration Ends Government Opposition to Texas Voter ID Laws

Breaking News By Amy Moreno February 27, 2017

After six long years, the Trump administration is officially dropping federal opposition to voter ID laws in Texas.

With President Trump’s Justice Department ending the government’s opposition to a voter ID law in Texas, the door is now open for other states to adopt similar voter ID laws.

From The Hill

After six years of legal wrangling, the Justice Department will no longer argue that Texas intentionally sought to discriminate against minorities when it passed the law that mandates voters show certain forms of identification before casting a ballot.

“This signals to voters that they will not be protected under this administration,” Lang told Talking Points Memo.

“We have already had a nine-day trial and presented thousands of pages of documents demonstrating that the picking and choosing of what IDs count was entirely discriminatory and would fall more harshly on minority voters. So for the [Justice Department] to come in and drop those claims just because of a change of administration is outrageous.”

Lang said that despite the federal government’s change of heart, organizations challenging the Texas law will press on.

While a federal appeals court struck down the voter ID law a few months before the 2016 elections on the grounds that it had a discriminatory effect, it sent the question about intent back to the lower courts. The Supreme Court rejected Texas’s appeal earlier this year on the first question.

The Justice Department is expected to lay out its new position during a hearing on Tuesday. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a supporter of voter identification laws as long as they are “properly drafted” and has voiced skepticism about the Voting Rights Act.

Republicans argue that the limits are unnecessary burdens on a state’s right to make its own laws to protect the ballot box.

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5 Comments

peto

good ,its about time

February 27, 2017
FedUpWithWelfareStates

Bravo!

Require Voter ID at Town halls…

February 27, 2017
Joseph Chiara

The Obama administration and the Dems have for decades patronized and infantilized minority communities creating debilitating dependencies and voters who think they are not up to higher standards so the bar needs to be lowered for it to be fair to them. It has wrecked havoc on poorer communities. Instead of elevating people and providing a path out of economic distress towards a better future, they effectively have created mental dependencies, or as Bob Marley said, “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery” The Dems the poverty pimps and hustlers who do their bidding create this mental slavery. The Urban League, or one of these organizations, required a photo ID to pick up a turkey, but are aghast that the standard should be higher for voting, and claim racism if it is. How utterly disgusting. I think with people like Sheriff Clarke, blacks and hispanic and poor white communities are waking up. A very bring and healthy new day may be coming, it seems we are on this path.

February 27, 2017
Mickey

And Donna Brazile said she required paper ballots for the DNC chairman vote so that they can verify the identity of each voter.

The Dems are the biggest hypocrites of all time

February 27, 2017
eve

No problem done !
at least not for me and yes the sleeping giant has awaken .
always had I. D. and I am Black .

February 27, 2017