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DALLAS/FORT WORTH, TX –El lunes, 27 de abril, el Congresista Marc Veasey nombró a Paola Rivera, estudiante de Segundo año en la Academia de bellas artes de Grand Prairie, estudiante ganadora de la competición de arte del Congreso por el Distrito 33º. La obra ganadora de Rivera, "Marco," será colgada para su exposición en los pasillos del Capitolio de los Estados Unidos durante un año.
Opponents claim the Texas law violates the federal Voting Rights Act and is an attempt to cut into the electoral strength of the state's growing minority population — people less likely to have photo identification or the means to obtain a certificate for the election.
DALLAS/FORT WORTH, TX – On Monday, April 27, Congressman Marc Veasey named Paola Rivera, sophomore from Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy, as the winning student for the 33rd District's Congressional Art Competition. Rivera's winning entry, "Marco," will hang on display in the halls of the U.S. Capitol for a year.
KERA Live Production Rundown – Think/Anything – Week of 4/27/15
This week, Think broadcasts from NPR Headquarters in Washington D.C.
Tuesday, 4/28 – Think
Hour 1: Scott Simon's relaxed delivery signals to millions of NPR listeners that the weekend is finally here. This hour, we'll talk to the Weekend Edition Saturday host about his new memoir, Unforgettable: A Mother's Final Days – And the Lessons that Last a Lifetime (Flatiron Books).
The case is Marc Veasey, et al., Texas Association of Hispanic County Judges and County Commissioners v. Greg Abbott et al. (cause no. 14-41127). Breitbart Texas reported that on October 11, 2014, U. S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzalez Ramos, a President Obama appointee, issued a permanent injunction requiring Texas to return to enforcing the in-person voter identification requirements that existed before Senate Bill 14 became law.
DALLAS/FORT WORTH, TX — U.S. Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, released the following statement today as the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will consider whether to uphold a lower-court decision on the Texas Voter ID law.
DALLAS/FORT WORTH, TX — El Congresista federal Marc Veasey, TX-33, ha hecho pública hoy la siguiente declaración al considerar la corte de apelación del quinto circuito si ratifica o no la decisión de un tribunal inferior acerca de la ley de identificación de votantes de Texas.
Plaintiff's lawyers, meanwhile, say they are optimistic.
The panel of judges will have to decide if Ramos was "clearly wrong" in her ruling, and that could be a hard decision for any appellate court, said Myrna Pérez, director of Voting Rights and Elections Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. "There was a very strong record in this case."
