Texas Voter ID law tossed:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[sandensea]

1. Yeehaw!

This one's for you, Anne Richards.

[shenmue]

2. Yes

[NastyRiffraff]

3. YESSSS!

Take THAT, Greg Abbott!

[dalton99a]

4. Trump will call for her deportation tomorrow

http://www.statesman.com/news/judge-tosses-out-texas-voter-law/PsNIZeADFBT7iTPhUOlEkM/

A federal judge Wednesday tossed out the Texas voter ID law, granting a permanent injunction barring Texas from enforcing the original 2011 law as well as a version with looser restrictions that was signed into law this summer.

U.S. District Judge Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of Corpus Christi ruled that the law violates the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution because it was “enacted with discriminatory intent — knowingly placing additional burdens on a disproportionate number of Hispanic and African-American voters.”

The changes recently adopted by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott were unsufficient to cure the discriminatory intent and effect of the original law, Ramos ruled.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he will appeal the ruling, calling it “outrageous.”

[sandensea]

5. +1

[louis-t]

13. No technicality there, she called it what it is.

"enacted with discriminatory intent". It is intended to stop qualified people from voting.

[Gothmog]

6. Yeah

Link to tweet

[lark]

7. Whoohoo!

Hurray for sanity and the stopping of illegal voter suppression. No wonder Repugs, especially the guy at the top, hates the judiciary. They stop the Repugs worst, most unconstitutional moves and that just drives them batshit.

[flying-skeleton]

8. What will Republicans do next .... They will

Simply think of something else before the next elections and by the time the courts rule on it the elections will be over AGAIN !!

[gratuitous]

12. Yup

That was the whole idea behind repealing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. It used to be that when a state with a history of discriminating against voters wanted to try some shenanigans, it had to go to the Justice Department for pre-clearance. Obviously, that stopped a whole lot of this shit a-borning. Now that Chief Justice Roberts has declared that racism in the United States is dead forever, hallelujah, there's no more need for this pre-clearance nonsense, and states can disenfranchise their citizens in any new and creative ways the Nazis can think up. As you note, by the time the latest gambit is declared unconstitutional, the election is over, and too bad, so sad, nothing can be done until the next election.

I wonder if there is something in the Shelby County decision that would allow for Section 5 to be reinstated in the face of the fact that it turns out that racism isn't quite as dead as the Court thought?

[Takket]

9. The judiciary is the only thing keeping this country afloat

[ananda]

10. Wow! Kewl!

I wonder whether it will go to SCOTUS.

[safeinOhio]

11. Repubs want every state

to be a "right to work" state. We should use the same language and call for every state to become a "right to vote" state.

[mythology]

16. Except when they say right to work

They mean without any protection.

[safeinOhio]

17. That is the only way they

can slide it through. That's why we need to use the same tactic.

[not fooled]

14. Oopsie

The Federal judiciary still has decent judges. The kochs and their lackeys haven't managed to put on enough RWNJ "judges" yet . They are however working intently to wreck the last branch of government still standing up for our rights.

[Mr.Bill]

15. Is anyone keeping track

of how much taxpayer money Texas is spending defending unconstitutional laws they pass?

[colsohlibgal]

18. Great!

Our voting procedures are a mess, it should be easy and foolproof but it is about the opposite.

But little victories are still good news.

[stuffmatters]

19. Great News but I fear for the final decision from The Stolen Gorsuch SCOTUS

Anyone have a clue if Kennedy cares about discrimination or voter suppression? I mean with Gorsuch now aren't we back to the
5 to 4 that obliterated The Voting Rights Act? Will this be another SCOTUS anti democracy, anticonstitutional decision propped up by GOP's traditional,racist "states rights" BS?

[BigmanPigman]

20. I hope the judges don't get fired or replaced.

[Kingofalldems]

22. Now why would you say that?

[BigmanPigman]

23. I heard or read that 45 want to do that.

[pangaia]

21. "...... knowingly placing additional burdens on a disproportionate number of Hispanic and

African-Americans.....'
END QUOTE !!!!!!!!

[Moral Compass]

24. Heard this on NPR on the way home

of course, Ken Paxton has the deckaref this to be absolutely outrages and he's going to appeal. Texans never seems to tire of paying for this crap. The Voter ID law was so discriminatory in its intent that it really kinda boggled the mind.

So, when they lost the first case in nothing flat they decided that they would just modify the long little bit and I hope that worked. It didn't. The new law was only slightly less discriminatory.

I often wonder how many simultaneous appeals we have that are winding their way up to the Supreme Court.

Texas doesn't have enough money to build roads that don't require a toll, educate their poor citizens, and actually provide some level of environmental oversight-- but they always have plenty of money to file these appeals and fight them to the bloody end. And then when they lose they go back to the drawing board.

What Texas will never do is admit that they were wrong and do something that is actually right. I'd say that this was the worst state government that I've ever lived under but I moved down here from Missouri so I'm kinda used to it at this point.

[Honeycombe8]

25. Great. Hope it sticks, if they appeal. nt