VIRGINIA WEBER AND GARY FLAVELL v. TANYA HARTMAN

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• holding that the germaneness requirement was satisfied in a voting case because the organizations’ purposes focused on voter rights and equal opportunity for minority voters
• cautioning that “past discrimination cannot, in the manner of original sin, condemn governmental action that is not itself unlawful”
• noting that historical evidence that is “largely unconnected” to the challenged action does not strengthen a plaintiff’s claim of discriminatory intent
• characterizing the fact that “minority voters in Alabama possess photo IDs at a slightly lower rate than white Alabama voters” as merely reflecting “small disparities”
• finding “[t]he [p]laintiffs’ position . . . weakened significantly by the fact that the evidence presented in this case is largely unconnected to the passage of the actual law in question”
• rejecting an in- ference of discriminatory intent when a legislator’s overt prior dis- crimination lacked a connection to show he acted with discrimina- tory intent in passing the specific law at issue

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