Voter ID case is going to trial (Texas' motion to dismiss mostly overruled)

[Gothmog]

Greg Abbott has been trying to get all of the claims and lawsuits dismissed in the Texas voter id lawsuit. The State of Texas made several motions to dismiss and attacked the standing of all of the plaintiffs in this case trying to keep the case from going to trial. On July 2, 2014, the court ruled against Greg Abbott's motions for the most part. http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63103

The court mostly denied Texas’s motion to dismiss, even allowing claims to go forward at this point on voter id as a poll tax and as a First Amendment violation. That’s not to say these will be winning claims, but it is significant that plaintiffs will get to advance a number of federal theories against the id law.

The only bad thing is that the counties of Dallas and Hidalgo were found not to have standing in this case and were dismissed out.

This means that the key federal causes of actions were upheld and can go to trial. Normally in a big case like this in the corporate world, the defendants start talking settlement after losing their motions to dismiss. There will be no settlement in this case given the fact that Greg Abbott is staking his reputation on it.

Finally, is anyone surprised that Greg lost another round? Greg is a bad attorney