Government to Sue Texas over Voter ID Law

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Even though the court struck down the voter rights act 2 months ago

No, it struck down the preclearance requirements in the VRA. Which means instead of the DOJ having to clear certain state's voting laws and the states suing if they feel that they should have been cleared, the DOJ now has to sue those states if they feel that those laws violate the VRA. Which is what they already did for the rest of the country.

Oops, they didn't strick down the whole thing, they struck down a part of it. My bad.

And the part that they didn't strike down has provisions for exactly this sort of suit when jurisdictions that aren't covered by preclearance do things that could be considered discriminatory.  Those provisions didn't see much use, tho they did from time to time.  Now that some Republicans in states formerly covered by preclearance have decided to go crazy with suppressing the voters they think won't vote for them, these sorts of suits are going to happen more often than they did.

All that the court decision changed was that the preclearance areas went from guilty until proven innocent to innocent until proven guilty.  But that doesn't mean they can't be found guilty.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This isn't really about elections, its the federal government (DOJ) stepping into state government telling them what they can/cannot do even though the courts said it was OK.

Except that is not what the courts said.  What the courts said was that instead of Texas having to prove that it is innocent of discrimination, the DOJ has to now prove Texas is guilty.  Back when preclearance was the law, the map Perry wants to put in place was already ruled to be discriminatory.  That finding of fact was not thrown out by the Supreme Court.  Now I don't think the DOJ will win on Voter ID, but in all probability it will win on the redistricting issue as they already won.