Texas must pay $6.8 million in legal fees to parties who challenged voter ID law,
Chad Dunn is the outside general counsel for the state party and the lead attorney in the Texas voter id/voter suppression law. Chad got this voter suppression law gutted so that you can vote with an power bill
Texas remains responsible for nearly $6.8 million in legal fees and costs owed to the collection of parties who sued over its voter ID law.
Although the state ultimately won the long-winding fight to keep the voter ID law on the books, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that found the state is on the hook for that sum the last vestige of the legal battle over the 2011 restrictions the state set on what forms of photo identification are accepted at the polls.
The Texas attorney generals office had appealed that lower court ruling, which found the plaintiffs in the litigation Democratic U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey of Fort Worth, individual voters, voting and civil rights groups, the NAACP-Texas and the Texas Houses Mexican American Legislative Caucus, among others were the prevailing parties.