Vote suppressors, like the wingnuts in charge of the Republican party, need to get to know this fellow too.
Yesterday, Texas was enjoined from enforcing its ridiculous and racist voter ID law. This triggers the ongoing pre clearance provisions of section 3(c). The very last sentence in the judge's opinion barring Texas from enforcing this law was this:
By subsequent order, the Court will set a status conference to address the procedures to be followed for considering Plaintiffs’ request for relief under Section 3(c) of the Voting Rights Act.
Voter ID was not itself the real issue: what was the problem was the difficulty and expense associated with getting the right ID. But for the Republican Party, faced with a dwindling white electorate, these barriers were a feature, maybe THE feature, not a bug. Now Texas, having recently obtained a release from preclearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, through the kind assistance of the Five Horsemen of the Supreme Court, faces potentially indefinite supervision of its election laws by a federal judge.
This is because Section 3(c) of the Voting Rights Act provides:
If in any proceeding instituted by the Attorney General or an aggrieved person under any statute to enforce the voting guarantees of the fourteenth or fifteenth amendment in any State or political subdivision the court finds that violations of the fourteenth or fifteenth amendment justifying equitable relief have occurred within the territory of such State or political subdivision, the court, in addition to such relief as it may grant, shall retain jurisdiction for such period as it may deem appropriate and during such period no voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting different from that in force or effect at the time the proceeding was commenced shall be enforced unless and until the court finds that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color, or in contravention of the voting guarantees set forth in section 1973b (f)(2) of this title
Greed for power by the Texas Republican Party and the cutting off of the voting rights of the people who might oppose them brought this upon the state of Texas.
In short, no one messed with Texas. Texas messed with Texas.