A federal appeals court has struck down one of
the nation's strictest voter ID laws, siding with the Obama
administration's argument that it would keep hundreds of thousands of
eligible voters from casting ballots.
The Wednesday decision was a victory for the
president, who has directed the Justice Department to try to beat back a
movement in several Republican-led state governments to implement
ballot-box restrictions.
Democrats and civil rights advocates have been
fighting the Texas law since it was passed in 2011. After early success,
opponents of the law had to change tactics when the U.S. Supreme Court
in 2013 struck down a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
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Source: NBC News
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