Voting rights advocates are prepared to keep battling Texas’ discriminatory voter ID law all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
That pledge came after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reversed a lower court’s decision to block Texas from enacting its revised voter identification measure. In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court authorized the state to enforce its strict ID requirements for the midterm elections.
“We are weighing our options in our long-standing battle with Texas over its discriminatory Voter ID law. Voter suppression laws should have no place in our democracy today,” said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in a tweet on Saturday.
Voter ID laws are part of the long history of voter suppression in the United States. More than 34 states passed restrictive voting laws since 2010, and 14 of them came into effect for the 2016 election, according to The Brookings Institution.
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Source: Court Allows Texas To Enforce Discriminatory Voter ID Law For Midterm Elections
