[EL] Texas amicus brief in Shelby County case

[Rick Hasen]

    Texas Remarkably Fails to Mention in Amicus Brief Against Voting
    Rights Act That Court Found It Engaged in Purposeful Racial
    Discrimination in Voting Last Year
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45884>

Posted on January 3, 2013 9:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45884> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A remarkable omission in the Texas amicus brief 
<http://www.projectonfairrepresentation.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/Shelby-County-v-Holder-Amicus-Brief-Texas.pdf> 
in the Shelby County voting rights case before the Supreme Court: 
there's all this talk about how burdensome the law is in relation to the 
DOJ fight over Texas's voter identification law. But no 
acknowledgement---much less excuse or explanation---of the district 
court's findings just last year <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39233> 
that Texas engaged in purposeful discrimination against minority 
legislators and voters in its most recent round of redistricting.

Does Texas think the other side will forget to bring this finding up to 
argue that section 5 is still needed?  A very odd choice by the lawyers 
here.

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