“Voter ID Lawsuits Live on Despite Likely Trump Policy Shift”

AP:

Federal lawsuits challenging voter ID requirements in Texas and North Carolina won’t just disappear, even if Justice Department lawyers who once argued against the laws effectively switch sides to advocate for them under President Donald Trump’s administration, civil rights lawyers say.

What Trump’s Justice Department will do isn’t yet known, but Trump’s comments on the campaign trail and since taking office suggest the agency will re-examine its strategy and may support the two states’ toughest-in-the-nation requirements that voters show picture identification at the polls. President Barack Obama’s Justice Department launched high-profile legal challenges against those laws, arguing that the requirements were unnecessary and unconstitutional.

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