Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Larry Meyers claims that the state's voter ID law violates the Texas Constitution, and the court ruled that the case will proceed after rejecting defendants' arguments that the court lacked jurisdiction.

Meyers—who filed the lawsuit as a private citizen, not as a judge on the state's top criminal court—and a Dallas-area election worker, Myrtis Evans, sued three defendants over the voter ID law, claiming that the law violated the Texas Constitution because it was a prior restraint on their right to political expression. Among other things, they alleged that the law violated their rights to due process and equal protection, said a third amended petition in Meyers v. Texas, filed in Dallas County's 134th District Court.

The plaintiffs sued the state of Texas, Secretary of State Carlos Cascos and Dallas County elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole. All of the defendants have denied all of the allegations.