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From Jamie Lovegrove at the Texas Tribune:
“The full U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to take up the Texas voter ID case Wednesday, adding another chapter to the law’s convoluted journey through the federal court system.”
“The decision to hear the case, Veasey v. Abbott, en banc comes more than six months after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the full court to review a three-judge panel’s ruling that the law has a ‘discriminatory effect’ that violates the Voting Rights Act but that it is not a ‘poll tax’ barred under the U.S. Constitution.”