The Texas case is the first window into how the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions will approach the issue of voting rights. The Texas case is the first window into how the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions will approach the highly charged issue of voting rights. A federal court in Texas found that 608,470 registered voters did not have the IDs the state required for voting. The Justice Department, under then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., sued Texas in 2011. The Justice Department’s move undercuts perhaps the most critical argument by advocates in the Texas case.

Source: Washington Post February 28, 2017 00:56 UTC