Texas got smacked down on voter ID. Now they just got the Plaintiff’s bill for 7 years of litigation from 11 different law firms.
$6.8 million.
And that is in addition to money spent by Texas for its own attorneys.
The award of attorney’s fees to the Plaintiffs is quite just. The court found that Texas enacted the law with discriminatory intent.
Texas should be happy that they got out of this without being bailed into pre-clearance. They are not far away. One more **** will probably earn them pre-clearance.
They should be super happy they are ONLY stuck with a monstrous bill.
Ken Paxton does not know when to stop. They are getting desperate since they are starting to see Texas turn back to purple. There are quite a few pollsters that are predicting that Texas could turn back to Blue in the next eight years. Film at eleven.
the law discriminated against minorities. Among those changes, were longer grace periods for the use of expired photo IDs in voting, from two years to four
The discrimination rulings were upheld by the Fifth Circuit, including Republican appointed Judges several times. And the Supreme Court declined to intervene.
That could be but there is a common thread that keeps popping up and I’m just pointing that out cuz ya know…some people need 4 years instead of 2 years, to replace their outdated ID.