The DOJ suing Texas over its voting restrictions is a sign of Garland's determination to fight for voting rights with the weapons he has left
Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images The timing was interesting and significant: Just a day after Senate Republicans filibustered the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to death, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that he was filing a lawsuit to halt implementation of a Texas voter suppression law.
[Garland] said that within 30 days the department would double the Civil Rights Division’s voting rights enforcement staff and committed to working with other agencies to combat voting-related disinformation,” Politico reports. This would give new assistant attorney general for civil rights Kristen Clarke a much better chance to initiate an effective voting-rights strategy absent new legislation.
[SB 1 contains] new ID requirements for those who overcome the state’s highly restrictive rules governing absentee ballots ; tight new regulations on how and whether voters with disabilities can receive assistance from others in reading or casting ballots; and fresh protections for partisan poll-watchers . The provisions aimed at excessively pro-voter local governments were drafted in particular to rule out Harris County’s 2020 innovations like 24-hour early voting and curbside ballot drop-offs.
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