http://www.cbsnews.com/news/appeals-...iscriminatory/AUSTIN, Texas -- A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Texas' voter ID law has a 'discriminatory' effect on minorities in a victory for President Barack Obama, whose administration took the unusual step of bringing the weight of the U.S. Justice Department to fight a wave of new ballot-box restrictions passed in conservative statehouses.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2011 Texas lawruns afoul of parts of the federal Voting Rights Act - handing down the decision on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the landmark civil rights law.
Texas was allowed to use the voter ID law during the 2014 elections, thereby requiring an estimated 13.6 million registered Texas voters to have a photo ID to cast a ballot.
The ruling was a victory, albeit not a sweeping one, for Democrats and minority rights groups. Whereas a Texas federal judge last year called the voter ID law the equivalent of a poll tax, a three-judge panel of the New Orleans court disagreed. It instead sent the law back to the lower court to consider how to fix the discriminatory effects.
Until then, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the law will still remain in effect, though he did not acknowledge the issues raised by court's mixed ruling.
Can you use your EBT card, Fuzzy?
hoping that I'm poor so you can justify your 5 figure GOP ethic?
5 figures? Haven't made that little since the early 90's.
We don't use decimals in our calculations here.
Antichrist= DarrinS
He first unveiled the sock puppet back in fall of 2008 when he was pretending to be an Obama voter as DarrinS.
His sock puppet got buyer's remorse about a month before the election.
Then, under the DarrinS handle, he pretended to have buyer's remorse a few days after the election.
Do you lie for petty political causes, DarrinS, or was it worth it?
liar for the good fight: Antichrist/DarrinS
that's dedication folks. he'll lie to you for your own good.
were you lying when you said you voted for Obama? do you recall saying that?
is this common?
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