Court Upholds Texas Voter ID Law Which Dems Had Fled The State To Protest
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday to uphold Texas’ voter ID requirement for mail-in ballots, a decision which President Donald Trump praised as “great news.” A brief opinion from Trump-appointed Circuit…
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday to uphold Texas’ voter ID requirement for mail-in ballots, a decision which President Donald Trump praised as “great news.”
A brief opinion from Trump-appointed Circuit Judge James Ho, stated that “mail-in ballots are not secure,” concluding that the Lone Star State’s “ID number requirement fully complies with a provision of federal law.” Trump posted on Truth Social that the decision to uphold voter ID requirements for mail-in ballots in Texas is “GREAT NEWS!!!” and that it “Should be Nationwide!!!”
Texas’ Election Integrity Protection Act of 2021 seeks “exercise the legislature’s constitutional authority … to make all laws necessary to detect and punish fraud,” according to its text. The unanimous three-judge panel ruling on Monday agreed that the ID requirement does not violate the “materiality provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”
Democratic Texas state lawmakers tried to derail the voter ID legislation’s 2021 passage by fleeing the state and traveling to Washington, D.C. — employing a controversial tactic