Photo ID required to enter a Federal courthouse.
Via Law Newzs:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday filed a petition for writ of certiorari asking the United States Supreme Court to reinstate Texas’ voter ID law.
“Safeguarding the integrity of our elections is essential to preserving our democracy,” Attorney General Paxton said in a statement. “Voter ID laws both prevent fraud and increase the public’s confidence in our elections. Texas enacted a common-sense voter ID law and I am confident that the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately reinstate it.”
The petition asks the Supreme Court to decide two questions:
1. Whether Texas’ voter-ID law “results in” the abridgement of voting rights on account of race.
2. Whether judgment should be rendered for petitioners on the claim that Texas’ voter-ID law was enacted with a racially
The petition also claims the recent 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the case creates a split amongst the Circuits.