https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/us/fe...d-law.html
I can hear him now. "A spic judge dares mess with Texass?"
Quote:HOUSTON — A federal judge ruled on Monday that the voter-identification law that the Texas Legislature passed in 2011 was enacted with the intent to discriminate against black and Hispanic voters, striking down the law and raising the possibility that the state’s election procedures could be put back under federal oversight.
In a long-running case over the legality of one of the toughest voter ID laws in the country, the judge found that the law was passed, at least in part, with a discriminatory purpose, violating the federal Voting Rights Act.
The judge, Nelva Gonzales Ramos of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, had previously made a similar ruling, but after Texas appealed her decision, a federal appellate court instructed her to review the issue once more. The appeals court — the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans — found that Judge Ramos had relied too heavily on Texas’ history of enacting discriminatory voting measures and other evidence the Fifth Circuit called infirm, and asked her to reweigh the question of discriminatory intent.
I can hear him now. "A spic judge dares mess with Texass?"
