Voter ID in Texas
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SCOTUS allows Texas voter ID to stand
The Supreme Court will allow Texas to enforce its new voter ID law in next month’s election, the court said in an unusual Saturday morning order.
Rejecting requests from the Obama administration and civil rights groups, the justices declined to re-impose an injunction against the law granted last week by a district court judge but lifted Tuesday by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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Justices allow Texas use of new voter ID law
The Supreme Court said Saturday that Texas can use its controversial new voter identification law for the November election.
A majority of the justices rejected an emergency request from the Justice Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring voters to produce certain forms of photo identification in order to cast ballots. Three justices dissented.
The law was struck down by a federal judge last week, but a federal appeals court had put that ruling on hold. The judge found that roughly 600,000 voters, many of them...
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Supreme Court Allows Texas to Use Voter ID Law 
The Supreme Court on Saturday allowed Texas to use its strict voter identification law in the November election. The court’s order, issued just after 5 a.m., was unsigned and contained no reasoning.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a six-page dissent saying the court’s action “risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.”
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined the dissent.
The law, enacted in 2011, requires voters seeking to cast their ballots at the polls to present photo identification like a Texas driver’s or...
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