Trump's Texas Voting Rights Case Stance Leaves Judge Unclear
- U.S. judge deciding if Texas lawmakers wrote law out of bias
- Trump administration reversing Obama stand on Photo ID law
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The Trump administration’s effort to drop part of a lawsuit challenging Texas’s strict voter ID requirements was questioned by a federal judge who must decide whether state lawmakers intended to suppress voting by minority citizens.
The Trump administration is seeking to abandon part of an Obama-era lawsuit challenging Texas’s strict voter ID requirements, as it executes an abrupt shift two weeks after Jeff Sessions took over as attorney general. In court Tuesday, the judge asked how the Justice Department could now say the possibility that Texas lawmakers will repair or replace the earlier law could resolve issues about whether they acted out of bias six years ago.