A Court Strikes Down Texas's Voter ID Law For the Fifth Time
By finding legislators intentionally discriminated, the ruling could put state elections laws back under control of the Department of Justice.
Texas’s voter ID law has been having a pretty bad time in the courts. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos found that the state’s new S.B. 5 law, passed in June, is still invalid, because its predecessor law was passed with discriminatory intent. But Judge Ramos went even further than simply striking down the law—implying that renewed federal supervision
