Texas voter ID case appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court

[TexasTowelie]

Opponents of Texas’ voter identification law asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to block an order from a lower court that gave the go-ahead to keep the state’s strict voter ID law in place for the Nov. 4 election.

Gerry Hebert and other lawyers representing the lead plaintiffs in the case — which include U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, and the League of United Latin American Citizens — filed an emergency application with the high court to reject action that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took Tuesday to revive the voter ID law in Texas.

The plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote in their filing that allowing voter ID to stay in effect will lead to “significantly more voter confusion,” compared with blocking it.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who is the charge of the appeals circuit that includes Texas, didn’t make a decision Wednesday, but he gave the state until 4 p.m. Thursday to respond to the plaintiffs’ filing.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/texas-voter-id-case-appealed-to-the-us-supreme-cou/nhj6n/

[northoftheborder]

1. Thanks for keeping up with developments.

[Gothmog]

2. Here is a link the brief

Do not print this brief because it has the 143 page district court opinion as an attachment http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Texas-voter-ID-Veasey-stay-applic-10-15-14.pdf

The brief is well done and really hits hard on the poll tax issue