Since yesterday there’s been a flurry of news developments, none of which I’m going to be able to write about today, but all of which are interesting, so I’d encourage you to take them up in the comments:1) Just days after a district judge ruled against Texas’s Voter ID law, the Fifth Circuit gave Texas permission to enforce the law in the meantime. Within hours opponents had asked the Supreme Court to delay the law’s implementation while the appeals process is ongoing. Considering that the Supreme Court blocked the implementation of Wisconsin’s voter ID law last week, it’s plausible that they’ll take the same view of Texas’s situation; early voting begins on Monday. 2) Meanwhile, also yesterday evening, the Supreme Court blocked the Fifth Circuit’s provisional…
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