Media Highlights in the Texas Voter Photo ID Case

Zachary Roth, Supreme Court approves Texas voter ID law, MSNBC (Oct 18, 2014)
Greg Stohr, Texas Voter-ID Law Allowed by U.S. Supreme Court, Bloomberg (Oct 18, 2014)
J. Christian Adams, One Last Hurrah for Texas Voter ID, PJ Media (Oct 18, 2014)
Curtis Skinner, Supreme Court denies request to block Texas voter ID law, Reuters (Oct 18, 2014)
CNN Wires, Texas can enforce voter ID law, Fox2Now (Oct 18, 2014)
Daniel Politi, Supreme Court Allows Texas Law That Accepts Handgun Permits but not College IDs to Vote, Slate (Oct 18, 2014)
David G. Savage, High court action on Texas ID law shows mixed record on voting rights, LA Times (Oct 18, 2014)
Aman Batheja, U.S. Supreme Court: Texas Can Enforce Voter ID Law, The Texas Tribune (Oct 18, 2014)
Natasha Korgaonkar on MSNBC, NAACP lawyer: Supreme Court ruling only affects upcoming elections, MSNBC (Oct 18, 2014
Will Weissert of Associated Press, Courts block voter ID laws in Texas, Wisconsin, MSN News (Oct 11, 2014)
Ryan Haygood on The Reid Report, Courts give ‘grab bag’ of voter ID decisions, MSNBC (Oct 10, 2014);
Ari Berman, Voter Suppression Backfires in Texas and Wisconsin, The Nation (Oct 10, 2014)
Associated Press, Voter ID laws in Texas, Wisconsin blocked by the courts, CBS News (Oct 10, 2014)
Brent Kendall, Voter Identification Laws Hit Roadblocks in Wisconsin and Texas, Wall Street Journal (Oct 10, 2014)
Mark Sherman, High court action on voting aims to avoid chaos, WSLS10 (Oct 10, 2014)
Will Weissert and Todd Richmond, Courts Block Voter ID Laws in Texas, Wisconsin, ABC NEws (Oct 10, 2014)
The Associated Press, Federal judge blocks Texas voter ID law, Star-Telegram (Oct 9, 2014)
Phil Helsel, Federal Court Strikes Down Texas Voter ID Law, NBC News (Oct 9, 2014)
Bill Mears, High court blocks Wisconsin voter ID law, CNN (Oct 9, 2014)
LDF Presents Closing Arguments in Closely Watched Challenge to Texas Photo ID Law, LDF (Sep 22, 2014)
Alice Ollstein, Weeks Before Election Day, Voter ID Trials Enter Uncharted Legal Territory, ThinkProgress (Sep 12, 2014)
Sara Donchey, Trial Begins in Federal Court Over Controversial Texas Voter ID Law, KRISTV.com (Sep 2, 2014)
Matt Woolbright, Opponents say Texas voter ID law imposes undue burden on voters, Callers Times (Sep 3, 2014)
Zachary Roth, Sky-high stakes in Texas voter ID trial, MSNBC (Sep 2, 2013)
“This case has huge implications for photo ID measures in other states,” said Ryan Haygood, the director of the voting rights program at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and a lead lawyer for the challengers. “Other states are looking to Texas to see how this photo ID trial plays out.”
Paul J. Weber (AP), Trial over Texas voter ID begins this week, Star-Telegram (Sep 1, 2014)
“Some of the most far-reaching implications wouldn’t be fully clear until a huge election,” said Natasha Korgaonkar, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “That’s when we’re going to see a number of voters who are vulnerable.”
Jon Herskovitz, Texas voter ID trial opens in U.S. court, Reuters (Sep 2, 2014)
Although Texas has yet to identify a single instance of in-person voter fraud, the state nevertheless insists that a racially discriminatory photo ID law is necessary to prevent it,” said Natasha Korgaonkar, assistant counsel with the civil rights group NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Jo-Carolyn Goode, LDF to Challenge Discriminatory Photo ID Law in Texas Federal Court, Houston Style Magazine (Sep 2, 2014)
LDF to Challenge Discriminatory Photo ID Law in Texas Federal Court, LDF (Sep 2, 2014)
Manny Fernandez, 2 Sides Cite Discrimination as Battle on Texas Voting Law Heads to Court, New York Times (Sep 1, 2014)
Our client, Imani Clark, a student at Prarie View A&AM University was featured in this New York Times article:
One of those who may testify is Imani Clark, 22, a college student who used to vote in Waller County using her student ID but has not voted since the law took effect. She does not have one of the approved forms of identification and has been unable to travel to a state office to apply for an election ID.

“She doesn’t have access to a car,” said Natasha M. Korgaonkar, a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who is representing Ms. Clark. “Waller County is rural Texas. There’s no public transportation available to her.”

Media Highlights in the Texas Voter Photo ID Case

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