Voter ID lawsuits are the last chance to prove the laws are intentionally racist | Ana Marie Cox

The people in this line? They’re waiting to vote. Voter ID laws would make this line a lot shorter. Photograph: Mario Tama / Getty

This week, the US Department of Justice and the state of Texas started arguments in the first of what will be a summer-long dance between the two authorities over voting rights. There are three suits being tried in two districts over gerrymandering and Texas’s voter identification law

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