Federal Judge Blocks Revised Texas Voter ID Law - Articles

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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Aug 24, 2017
A revised version of a Texas voter ID law has been blocked by a federal judge, who found the added provisions fell “far short of mitigating” the parts of the original law that discriminated against minority voters, the ABA Journal reports. U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos issued a permanent injunction yesterday blocking the new and old versions of the law, finding them in violation of the Voting Rights Act as well as the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.