Fed judge tosses Tx ID law

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —*A federal judge who has compared Texas' voter ID requirements to a "poll tax" on minorities once again blocked the law Wednesday, rejecting a weakened version backed by the Trump administration and dealing Texas Republicans another court defeat over voting rights.
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos rejected changes signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott this summer as not only lacking but also potentially chilling to voters because of new criminal penalties. The new version didn't expand the list of acceptable photo identifications - meaning gun licenses remained sufficient proof to vote, but not college student IDs.

Instead, the changes would allow people who lack a required ID to cast a ballot if they signed an affidavit and brought paperwork that showed their name and address, such as a bank statement or utility bill. Those revisions were supported by the U.S. Justice Department, which under President Barack Obama had joined Democrats and minority rights groups in suing over the law.
But that position has changed with President Donald Trump in charge, who has established a commission to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the 2016 elections. In February, the Justice Department abandoned the argument Texas passed voter ID rules with discrimination in mind and said changes signed by Abbott should satisfy the courts.
Texas first passed the voter ID law in 2011, the same year the GOP-controlled Legislature adopted voting maps that were also struck down as discriminatory



racist


it was a racist law


maybe the people who wrote it KNOW itr was racist


maybe they didnt know it was racist


only a racists could not tell it was actaully racist
 
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/09/05/federal-appeals-court-approves-new-texas-voter-id-law/

The state of Texas can use its revised voter ID measure for the upcoming November elections, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

The state of Texas can use its revised voter ID measure for the 2018 November elections, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

The 2-1 decision, first reported by Politico Tuesday night, came from a panel of three federal judges on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans — and it marks the latest in a series of winding legal battles on whether the state has intentionally discriminated against black and Latino voters through its original voter ID law passed in 2011

In August, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos tossed Senate Bill 5, which the Texas Legislature passed earlier this year and in some ways softened the previous requirements that Texans present one of seven forms of photo ID at the polls in order to cast a ballot. Ramos said the state's new voter ID law failed to fix the intentional discrimination against minority voters found in a 2011 ID law.

"Not one of the discriminatory features of [the old law] is fully ameliorated by the terms of SB 5," she wrote.

Shortly afterward, the Justice Department asked the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to block that ruling, continuing the Trump administration's dramatic reversal on voting rights.

SB 5 would allow Texans without photo ID to vote if they present alternate forms of ID and sign affidavits swearing a “reasonable impediment” kept them from obtaining the proper ID.

In a joint order Tuesday, Judges Jerry Smith and Jennifer Elrod wrote that Texas "has made a strong showing that it is likely to succeed on the merits," and added that the state has also "made a strong showing that this reasonable-impediment procedure remedies plaintiffs' alleged harm and thus forecloses plaintiffs' injunctive relief."
 
Where do judges get the authority to repeal laws?. The constitution says they don't have it. It says "all legislative powers herein granted are vested in a congress of the united states." Writing and Repealing laws is what legislatures do. I suppose federal congress could repeal this state law, but federal courts cannot.
 
evince said:
http://wjla.com/news/nation-world/federal-judge-again-tosses-out-texas-voter-id-law

Instead, the changes would allow people who lack a required ID to cast a ballot if they signed an affidavit and brought paperwork that showed their name and address, such as a bank statement or utility bill. Those revisions were supported by the U.S. Justice Department, which under President Barack Obama had joined Democrats and minority rights groups in suing over the law.
But that position has changed with President Donald Trump in charge, who has established a commission to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the 2016 elections. In February, the Justice Department abandoned the argument Texas passed voter ID rules with discrimination in mind and said changes signed by Abbott should satisfy the courts.
Texas first passed the voter ID law in 2011, the same year the GOP-controlled Legislature adopted voting maps that were also struck down as discriminatory
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This judge is a liberal moron. So tell me how a signed affidavit and paperwork that showed their name and address, such as a bank statement or utility bill is proof someone is an American citizen entitled to vote?

That's got to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.....except for nearly everything you post that is. :rofl2:
 
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