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Supreme Court upholds voter ID law in Texas

The Supreme Court decided to uphold Texas’ voter ID law, which will go into effect for the November election.

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The Supreme Court decided to uphold Texas’ voter ID law, which will go into effect for the November election.

The emergency request  from the U.S. Department of Justice was rejected causing the continuation of the state requiring voters to show certain forms of photo identification in order to vote.

The law lists seven forms of approved ID, which include a concealed handgun license, but not a college ID. College IDs are normally accepted in other states that have similar voter ID laws.

The Justice Department and civil rights groups alike argued that the controversial law is an discriminatory law and disenfranchises 600,000 Black and Latino voters.

All three of the female Justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kaga and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dissented.

"The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters," Ginsburg wrote in her dissent.

In 143-page opinion piece from U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos, the law was called an "unconstitutional burden on the right to vote" and the equivalent of a poll tax.

Days after Ramos’ ruling, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put her decision on hold, saying that judges cannot change the law so close to Election Day. Early voting starts in Texas on Monday.

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