Within hours of Donald Trump being sworn in as president Friday, a federal court in Corpus Christi postponed a scheduled hearing in the Texas voter ID case until next month at the request of the Justice Department. Lawyers for the department asked for a delay in the hearing scheduled for Tuesday, citing the change in presidential administrations.“Because of the change in administration, the Department of Justice also experienced a transition in leadership,” the department’s petition states. “The United States requires additional time to brief the new leadership of the department on this case and the issues to be addressed at that hearing before making any representations to the court.”In the past, the agency has asked that hearings in the case be expedited because of the issues involved.
The court agreed to the delay, postponing the hearing until Feb. 28.
A lawyer for one of the plaintiffs expressed disappointment at the delay.
“This delay for us is not in the interest of resolving a case that has been going on for far too long,” said Leah Adeh, senior counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “We all have been expending far too many resources on it, and we really want a hearing to get to a decision that this law needs to be struck down.”
Full Article: Court grants request to delay Texas voter ID hearing – San Antonio Express-News.
