TX Republicans kill filibuster, essentially ending abortion in state

[Polaris]

But I'm more concerned with Texas thinking it's going to get away with it's Voter ID law, which will be repealed by Congress during the next session.

Actually both will likely be struck down for unConstitutionality....

Actually, I'm not really clear about why this is so controversial. Granted I'm probably missing something so hopefully someone can help clear this up for me.

This whole thing stems back to when a lot of southern states tried to prevent minorities from voting, correct? So the federal government ruled that certain states, and only certain states, that had a history of doing this couldn't enact any laws seen to try and do such a thing.

So while other states such as Wisconsin and Illinois states that you must show state issued identification in order to vote (which they do), other states like Texas and Mississippi can not. Right? Am I understanding this correctly?

Why don't you just go over to the DMV and grab an Indentification card? I don't see how it's ok for some states, in 2013, to say you have to have ID but it's not ok for other states to do the exact same thing.

And how is it unconstitutional? It's consititutional for the state of Illinois to have this requirement but it's unconstitutional for the state of Texas to have this requirement?

Someone help me out here. What'd I miss? Fuck I hate politics.

It's because 40 years ago, certain states were quite bad when it came to respecting the Civil Rights Act..that racism has spread westward and the Supreme Court ruled Section 4 unconstitutional to punish the same states for data that is 40 years old.

I see it as some Texan saying to invade Germany because they have the Nazi Party in power, which is obviously not the case.

Edit: but the GOP does have a point...I've been able to vote in California without being on the list for polling and did not even need an ID...they just let me vote...not sure if they threw it out in Sacramento though.