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Case Returns: Minority Voters and Washington-Based Campaign

case returns: It's a complete 180, said Danielle Lang of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, according to The Chronicle Herald. We can't make heads or tails of any factual reason for the change. It's a dramatic break from the agency's position under President Barack Obama, which spent years arguing that the voter ID law passed in 2011 by Texas' Republican-controlled Legislature was intended to disenfranchise poor and minority voters. There has been no new evidence that's come to light. Voting rights activists sued, and the case returns to court Tuesday in Corpus Christi, Texas, before U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos. The law requires voters to show one of seven forms of state-approved photo identification gun permits are acceptable but college IDs are not. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.