.HayesBrown: Conservatives are winning the quiet war they've waged against voter protections
, the case dealing with straight ticket voting, Duncan writes that even though Scott is Texas’ chief election officer, because it’s not up to him to actually print the state’s ballots, he’s off the hook for enforcing the law.
“The majority continues this Court’s effort to shrink the role of Ex parte Young, by overly narrow readings of the state officer’s duty to enforce Texas’s election laws,” Judge Patrick Higginbotham, the dissenter in the three cases, wrote. While he may not have ruled with all the defendants on the merits, Higginbotham argued, blocking a path for federal courts to address states’ potential violations of the 14th Amendment and other constitutional issues isn’t the answer.
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