TEXAS: Voting Rights Act is Unconstitutional: Case Could Reach SCOTUS - Before Election

[kpete]

Texas Ups Ante in Its Voter ID Case, Says Voting Rights Act is Unconstitutional: Case Could Reach SCOTUS Before Election
Posted on March 14, 2012 10:14 pm by Rick Hasen

Texas filed an amended complaint today (UPDATE, actually Tuesday) https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxeOfQQnUr_gb2t4blV3blFUZHFGZ0hvSEIwSlhHUQ/edit?pli=1 in its action to overcome the US Department of Justice’s objection to its voter identification law. The complaint now says that the Voting Rights Act section 5, as amended in 2006, “exceeds the enumerated powers of Congress and conflicts with Article IV of the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment.”

This is a very big deal. I had expected South Carolina to do this in its own challenge to DOJ denial of preclearance of its voter id law. For some reason, South Carolina did not do so; nor did Texas in its initial complaint.

way more, plus links:
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=31583

[w8liftinglady]

1. This IS a big deal in Texas

Texas could literally be a Democratic Majority state again with successful GOTV... and that would REALLY disturb the powers-that-be.

Think of Tom DeLay... dirty tricks are not new here.

[uponit7771]

2. Yes, this is huge...Tarrant County has the potentioal of going solid blue. Texas COULD be up for...

...grabs and that's why I don't think the USSC will rule in the favor of the constitution.

They know the stakes in this one

[MagickMuffin]

3. Being a Precinct Chair in Tarrant County is a challenge

And we ARE working hard to turn our County BLUE. We won a victory with the redistricting, when the TXGOP tried to get rid of Wendy Davis and FAILED.

And of course who didn't see this coming, running to the USSC as fast and furious as Abbot's wheelchair would go.

We'll just have to visualize (starting today) the Court upholding the Constitution.

[EC]

4. Well

with the Supremes the way they are, the Dems are going to have to make new law to go around it somehow, after the SCOTUS rules ID's legal.