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Federal judge rules that all Texas voters can apply to vote by mail amid coronavirus pandemic

Salon, May 21, 2020

May 21, 2020

Federal judge rules that all Texas voters can apply to vote by mail amid coronavirus pandemic

But Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, predicted that “there are good reasons to believe [the ruling] will soon be reversed by the 5th Circuit.” Citing the ongoing state lawsuit, Hasen said that federal courts typically wait until such litigation is complete, suggesting that this was a case of a “federal court jumping the gun.” He also predicted that the appeals court would reject the argument that current rules violate the 26th Amendment’s age protections.