The Sessions Effect: Trump DOJ Reverses Course In Major Texas Voter ID Case

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published FEBRUARY 27, 2017, 12:47 PM EDT

For the last six years, the Justice Department has sided with the citizens and civil rights groups fighting Texas' voter ID law, which a federal judge at one point found to be intentionally discriminatory against black and Latino voters. But its position Link to tweet
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"This signals to voters that they will not be protected under this administration," said Danielle Lang, the deputy director of voting rights at the Campaign Legal Center, which is challenging Texas' law in court.

The reversal, on the eve of a key hearing in the case, is a clear sign of the DOJ's direction under Attorney General Jeff Sessions—a longtime advocate of voter ID laws and other voting restrictions. The department signaled its intentions last week when it joined with the state of Texas to ask the court to hold off on judging the constitutionality of the law until Republican lawmakers can modify it. The court rejected this request.

Lang told TPM that the DOJ reached out Monday morning to her and the other voting rights groups fighting the law to notify them of their new position.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/texas-voter-id-reversal-doj

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Look, black folks and Latino folks simply dont need to be voting in the first place.

They always vote the wrong way and white folks know better than they do anyway.

Surely you all know this by now.

Or

Sessions and Trump and almost half of America are rabidly racist assholes.

Who knows which it is.

[benld74]

2. They're backing out, in order to file a new one

that will make their 'case' better, "in their mind".


BUT

it will get rebuffed once more

and we will get tweet-storrmed once more

[Amishman]

4. Read it again, their dropping it lets the ID law stand

[benld74]

5. I sit corrected. And thanks

[JudyM]

3. SAD.

[Solly Mack]

6. SMH

Not surprised as Sessions is a racist. Still, I am so tired of people like Sessions. If they were to disappear off the face of the earth I wouldn't bother to be curious.