The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has agreed that the court’s full bench will consider the issue of whether a Texas voter ID law violates the U.S. Voting Rights Act.
A three-judge panel of the same court ruled in 2015 that the law discriminates against minority voters. In response, Texas asked the Fifth Circuit to have all the judges rehear Veasey v. Abbott. The voter ID law that is the subject of the plaintiffs’ objections, known as SB-14, requires voters to show government-issued identification from a list of specific documents that includes driver’s licenses, concealed handgun licenses, U.S. military identifications, or U.S. passports. But the law’s list doesn’t include such documents as student identification issued by a state university.
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