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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: zax8/5/2015 9:37:12 PM
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And still more bad news for the minority vote suppressing R racist wingers....

Texas ID Law Called Breach of Voting Rights Act
By ERIK ECKHOLM AUG. 5, 2015

nytimes.com

A federal appeals panel ruled Wednesday that a strict voter identification law in Texas discriminated against blacks and Hispanics and violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a decision that election experts called an important step toward defining the reach of the landmark law.The case is one of a few across the country that are being closely watched in legal circles after a 2013 Supreme Court decision that blocked the voting act’s most potent enforcement tool, federal oversight of election laws in numerous states, including Texas, with histories of racial discrimination.

While the federal act still bans laws that suppress minority voting, exactly what kinds of measures cross the legal line have been uncertain since that Supreme Court ruling.

</snip> Read the rest here: nytimes.com
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