In latest voter ID filing, feds argue Texas discriminated on purpose

[TexasTowelie]

Months after a federal appeals court ruled that Texas lawmakers discriminated against African-American and Latino voters in passing a strict voter identification law, the Obama administration and civil rights groups are asking a judge to go a step further — by finding that the lawmakers did it on purpose.

“The discriminatory impact was not merely an unintended consequence” of the 2011 law, known as Senate Bill 14, Justice Department lawyers wrote in a brief filed late Friday. “It was, in part, SB 14’s purpose.”

The 45-page brief was part of the latest back-and-forth in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas — one of two legal fronts in a convoluted battle over identification requirements that were temporarily softened during November’s presidential election.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton refuted the plaintiffs’ arguments in his own filing Friday, accusing them of pushing a “false narrative.”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/11/19/latest-voter-id-filing-feds-argue-texas-discrimina/

[joshdawg]

1. Paxton would only want white men

able to vote. No women. No minorities. Just white men. To say Paxton is xenophobic would be an understatement. But then that would also apply to Patrick and Abbott.

[Skittles]

2. Paxton is a racist piece of shit