{"id":31016,"date":"2012-08-30T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=31016"},"modified":"2012-08-30T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:26:12","slug":"washington-post-texas-voter-id-law-struck-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/08\/30\/washington-post-texas-voter-id-law-struck-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Texas voter ID law struck down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court on Thursday blocked a controversial new voter ID law in Texas, ruling that the state failed to show that the law would not harm the voting rights of minorities.<\/p>\n<p>The three-judge panel in the historic case said that evidence also showed that costs of obtaining a voter ID would fall most heavily on poor African Americans and Hispanics in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence submitted by Texas to prove that its law did not discriminate was \u201cunpersuasive, invalid, or both,\u201d wrote David. S. Tatel, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in the panel\u2019s 56-page opinion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/texas-voter-id-law-struck-down\/2012\/08\/30\/4a07e270-f2ad-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html\">Click here<\/a> to read the full article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court on Thursday blocked a controversial new voter ID law in Texas, ruling that the state failed to show that the law would not harm the voting rights of minorities. The three-judge panel in the historic case said that evidence also showed that costs of obtaining a voter ID would fall most heavily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}