Brief: Texas Voter Registration Drive Restrictions Violate First Amendment, Federal Law

Brennan Center, League of Women Voters, and Rock the Vote File Amicus Brief in Texas Case

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 27, 2012. Recent changes to Texas law make it extremely difficult for voter registration groups to sign up new voters, violating the First Amendment and the National Voter Registration Act, argues the Brennan Center for Justice in an amicus brief with the League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote.

Texas, which already had one of the…