The Brief: Top Texas News for March 13, 2012

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Yet another election controversy has pushed Texas into the middle of a national fight over voting rights.

Just weeks after legal wrangling over redistricting thrust Texas into the spotlight, the U.S. Justice Department on Monday blocked Texas' contentious voter ID law, ruling that it would disproportionately dampen turnout among Hispanic voters.

In a letter to Texas' election division, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas E. Perez wrote that the state could not prove the law — which would require voters in the state to present a form of photo identification at the polls — would not disenfranchise minority ...

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