NAACP, MALC sue to block voter ID


The suit, filed Tuesday in federal court, alleges that the Texas law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and also runs afoul of the under the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

According to the suit, Texas’ voter ID law will “disproportionately prevent Latino and African-American citizens in Texas from voting in person and, in the totality of the circumstances, deny Latino and African American citizens an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and were enacted for that purpose.”

A federal judge has set Oct. 25 as the date for an initial conference hearing for the cases opposing Texas’ voter ID law.

David Saleh Rauf