Texas Says It Will Appeal Voter ID Ruling To SCOTUS Next Week

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The Texas Attorney General’s Office said it planned to appeal a circuit appeals court ruling that weakened the state’s voter ID law to the Supreme Court next week. The announcement came in the state’s response to a court order Tuesday, instructing it to fix language in its voter education materials so that it was in line with a court-approved agreement after the appeals court ruling, which said the 2011 law was discriminatory in its effect.

“Our office still maintains the common-sense measures in the Texas voter ID law are valid and will be filing a petition this week for the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case,” the statement said.

It was unclear from the statement whether Texas plans to apply for an emergency stay asking that the ruling be halted and the law implemented ahead of the November elections, or if it plans to only ask for a full review of the case, which would likely take many months for the Supreme Court to hear and decide.

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  1. So I’m confused, is Texas appealing the agreement, the original ruling or just being Texass?

  2. The title of the original TPM article was ‘Judge Orders Do-Over After Texas Misleads Voters on Voter ID Law’. I’m of the opinion that there should be a do-over of everything that has happened in that state since they rejected Anne Richards in favor of George W. Shitforbrains.

  3. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Scalia died at a Texas ranch, but it’s almost as if they don’t know.

    Maybe too busy running down the Jade Helm conspiracy to keep up with the news.

    Good luck with SCOTUS. You’re gonna need it.

  4. What dumbasses. Yeah, I’m sure SCOTUS will get right on that.
    Except for that whole bit about Scalia taking a dirt nap.

    Speaking of Texas, when will we hear more about Trump successfully bribing then-AG Abbott to get out of the Trump University case?

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