Texas Republicans push back against Holder on voting rights challenge | Fox News: "Texas Republicans are pushing back against a move by Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department to attempt to force the state to receive permission from the federal government before it can make changes to its voting and election laws.
In the administration's first response to last month's Supreme Court ruling that wiped out a major provision of the Voting Rights Act, Holder asked a San Antonio-based federal court to force Texas to get Justice Department approval before changing their election rules.
The high court’s 5-4 decision gutted the part of the Voting Rights Act under which all or parts of 15 mainly Southern states had been required to submit all voting changes for approval from Washington before they could take effect.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Thursday the Obama administration seemed to be "sowing racial divide" and accused the administration of joining Texas Democrats with an eye on the 2014 elections. "
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