Responding to a DC District Court scheduling order in the state’s lawsuit against the DOJ, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office said it is not relenting in its defense of Voter ID: “In an ongoing effort to prevent Texas from enforcing its Voter ID law during the November election, the DOJ and partisans who oppose the Voter ID law, have issued endless discovery requests seeking millions of records that have nothing to do with this case. . . The DOJ and their partisan allies need to end their fishing expedition and stop their attempts to deny Texas the same right to require the very same type of photo identification from voters that has already been upheld by the Supreme Court. The needless delays imposed by the opponents of Texas’ Voter ID law continue to prove that Justice Kennedy was correct when he noted that the Section 5’s preclearance requirements put Texas at a disadvantage compared to other states”. To keep the July 9 trial date, and the possibility of an August 31 decision and November implementation of Voter ID, Texas must produce relevant databases, non-privileged documents and emails by today, May 9.