(NNPA)—The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month let stand the state of Texas’ latest attempt to use the old tactics of the Jim Crow era and rig state and national elections in favor of the Republican Party by denying Black and Hispanic voters access to the ballot.
The refusal of the court’s conservative majority to support the ruling of a federal district court judge in Texas that the state legislature’s new photo ID law was “imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose” and is “an unconstitutional poll tax” was, in fact, to be expected, given its striking down last year the key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that had protected Black and Hispanic voting rights from the predatory actions of conservative state officials.
However, the court’s majority’s latest blow to democracy nonetheless drew a scathing rebuttal from the court’s three female Justices. That dissent, along with the original ruling of Federal District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos, should be required reading for anyone wishing to understand the empty legalisms of the Republican Party’s photo ID law hustle.
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