{"id":10704,"date":"2014-07-09T06:05:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2014-07-09T00:04:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T07:04:30","slug":"federal-court-denies-motion-to-dismiss-dojs-lawsuit-against-tx-polling-place-photo-id-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10704","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Denies Motion to Dismiss DoJ’s Lawsuit Against TX Polling Place Photo ID Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via UC Irvine election law professor Rick Hasen…<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to a reader for pointing out last week’s district court order [PDF]<\/a> in the Texas voter id case. The court mostly denied Texas’s motion to dismiss, even allowing claims to go forward at this point on voter id as a poll tax and as a First Amendment violation. That’s not to say these will be winning claims, but it is significant that plaintiffs will get to advance a number of federal theories against the id law.<\/div>\n

So there’s some encouraging news to start your day.<\/p>\n

For much more on the pending federal challenge to the TX Republicans’ attempt to institute their disenfranchising polling place Photo ID restriction — a law which had otherwise been repeatedly rejected as discriminatory by both the DoJ and federal courts<\/a> until SCOTUS gutted the central protections of the Voting Rights Act<\/a> last year — see just some of our recent previous coverage here:<\/p>\n

• “Wisconsin Federal Court Decision Could Mark Beginning of End For GOP Photo ID Restrictions”<\/a> (5\/2\/2014)<\/p>\n

• “Federal Judge Orders TX to Produce Legislative Docs That May Prove Polling Place Photo ID Restriction Law Was Racially-Motivated”<\/a> (4\/7\/2014)<\/p>\n

• “Texas GOP’s Polling Place Photo ID Law Almost Certain to Get Nixed. Again. Here’s Why…”<\/a> (9\/4\/2013)<\/p>\n

• “Texas AG Defrauds Texas in Response to DoJ Lawsuit Against Polling Place Photo ID Law”<\/a> (8\/23\/2013)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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