The MEC appointee who has found Texas's voter ID law unconstitutional bases his decision on demographic considerations, likening voter ID requirements to Jim Crow-era poll taxes. It's the same mentality that spurred SCOTUS justice Ginsberg to bring in the women angle in her Hobby Lobby dissent. You go that route and you are getting into the realm of people's choices. There's no reason to assume an inherent link between someone in a minority demographic and an inability to get a damn picture taken. It's highly offensive that this judge ascribes overt discrimination to the motives of the legislators who crafted the law. Same with the Ginsberg situation. If a woman - or a man, for that matter - is interested in procuring a contraceptive, that is completely within the realm of that person's personal choices. The person is not entitled to contraception, nor is it necessary to continuing drawing another breath in one's mortal shell.
So glad to hear Texas intends to appeal. The timing on this (weeks before the election) stinks.
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