Senate Bill 5

A federal judge has tossed out a new law softening Texas’ strict voter identification requirements.

An election official checks a voter’s photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas.
Texas’ new voter identification law fully absolves the state from having discriminated against minority voters in 2011, and courts should not take further action in a battle over the state’s old voter ID law, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice argued in a legal filing Wednesday.