Lanora Pettit (left), deputy solicitor general for Texas; Sean Morales-Doyle (right) counsel for plaintiffs argue before Texas Supreme Court. Credit/Texas Supreme Court oral argument archive.
The Texas Supreme Court declined to give a narrow meaning, as requested by a county elections administrator, to an anti-solicitation law that restricts elections officers from encouraging vote by mail.
The court released an opinion Friday in Paxton v. Longoria that was its response to three certified questions from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld a decision on a temporary injunction that concerns a section in Texas’ new voting restriction laws that were enacted in September 2021.
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