Trumps DOJ Sides With Texas In Latest Voter ID Legal Tussle
Source: Talking Points Memo
In the latest sign that President Trump’s Justice Department, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is backing off the Obama administration’s aggressive defense of voting rights, the DOJ filed a motion Wednesday standing up for an exemption the Texas legislature recently passed to its 2011 voter ID law, which has been subject of a years-long legal battle.
The private plaintiffs in the case are arguing that the carveout does not go far enough to address court rulings that the law was discriminatory against minority voters. Following up on Texas’ filing late last month that defended the exemption, the DOJ argued that the carveout, coupled with the original law, “both guarantees to Texas voters the opportunity to cast an in-person ballot and protects the integrity of Texas’s elections.”
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Hey, Sessions your a fucking light weight asshole, you will not even stand up and defend a persons right to vote, nope , I wonder what "you" and your right wing cronies would feel like if the shoe was on the other foot..........................you have no principles
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they are and have violated every principle of Constitution, everyone, and we have court that is trying to be packed by the Koch's on ending the "blue slip" and we have a republican Congress, that has put party over country
and if some reporter where to ask, a question: What are your scruples?.............and we can see and hear what we get. No scruples
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