Cenk Uygur
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Texas Voter Suppression Law Struck Down
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August 7, 2015
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8:40Now PlayingIn recent years, a number of states have been making it increasingly difficult to vote. One method of disenfranchisement has been voter ID laws. A Federal appeals court in Texas has now struck down that state’s favorite voter suppression tactic. John Iadarola (Think Tank) and Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"One day before the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country wielded that law to strike down a Texas voter suppression law. A unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in an opinion written by a George W. Bush appointee, held that Texas’s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and must, at the very least, be significantly weakened. Though the court did not accept every argument raised against the state’s voter ID law, and its opinion does not go nearly as far as a trial judge’s decision which also struck down this law, it is a significant blow to the state’s efforts to make voting more difficult.”*
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