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Texas Defends Voter ID Law in Court Today

The decades-old legal battle between states' rights and civil rights returns today to a familiar venue — a federal courtroom — as lawyers for the state of Texas try to convince a panel of judges that the Justice Department has no legal authority to block the state from immediately implementing a voter ID law.

The decades-old legal battle between states' rights and civil rights returns today to a familiar venue — a federal courtroom — as lawyers for the state of Texas try to convince a panel of judges that the Justice Department has no legal authority to block the state from immediately implementing a voter ID law.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.