Acting one day before the fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s most important voting rights law, a federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that Texas will be barred from enforcing at least part of its four-year-old law that requires a photo ID before a voter can go to the polls. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, however, left a good deal of doubt about how much of the law Texas will actually be nullified after a new round of analysis that it ordered a federal trial judge to do.
This is very much in line with my own analysis: a narrow and fragile win, and not a sweeping one (and one which makes TX bail-in quite unlikely).
After hearing of the 5th Circuit en banc possibilities, my bet in on Texas going straight to the Supreme Court.