State tries to keep legislators from giving depositions on voter ID [View all]

[TexasTowelie]

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott this week asked a federal court in Washington to prevent 12 state lawmakers from giving depositions in the state's voter identification case.

The U.S. Department of Justice, which is facing off against Abbott's office in a case to allow Texas' voter ID law to go into effect, has asked to depose — or question under oath — the author of the voter ID bill, Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay; its House sponsor, Rep. Patricia Harless, R-Spring; and other lawmakers.

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In addition to deposing lawmakers, the Justice Department is seeking copies of written communications among members of the Legislature, communications between legislators and staffers and communications between legislators and their constituents.

The state's motion called the Justice Department's requests "an unwarranted federal intrusion into the operations of the Texas Legislature."

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/state-tries-to-keep-legislators-from-giving-depositions-2258123.html