A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that Texas can withhold a list of people it thinks are noncitizens and can’t vote. The suit was brought by five civil rights groups that sought to hold Texas accountable if it disenfranchised naturalized citizens.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Thursday reversed a lower court’s ruling in August in which a district judge had found Texas was violating federal law by refusing to release the list. The coalition “offered no meaningful evidence regarding any downstream consequences from an alleged injury in law under the NVRA [National Voter Registration Act],” Jones wrote. “The lack of concrete harm here is reinforced because not a single Plaintiff is a Texas voter, much less a voter wrongfully identified as ineligible.”
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