Private civil rights lawyers may still prevail on a claim that Texas lawmakers intentionally discriminated against blacks and Hispanics when they passed the state’s voter ID law, even though the U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions-led Department of Justice has reversed the federal government’s position on the issue.

The private civil rights lawyers made that argument at a Feb. 28 federal court hearing.

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