# Bricker's betting gambit **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 4, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brickers-betting-gambit/667992 "2013-09-04T13:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 88
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brickers-betting-gambit/667992/88 "2013-09-05T00:32:55Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Upon reading the thread, I’m a bit confused. I don’t see any predictions offered by **Bridget**. Betting aside, this seems to be another legalistic threadshit where there’s a deliberate conflation of the way the law will be decided and the way the law _ought_ to be decided. Note that noting the way the Justice Department feels about it is not predicting how it will be decided in court. What do you take her statement here to mean? > [@How does TX requiring State ID violate VRA?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-tx-requiring-state-id-violate-vra/667657/80): > > \*\*Bricker \*\*needs to contact those [US Representatives](http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/06/26/4966289/veasey-files-suit-to-stop-texas.html) & the [Justice Department](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/22/214589956/justice-files-voter-discrimination-suit-against-texas) and instruct them to drop their suits against the Texas Voter ID law. > > Because he’s a _lawyer_ & what he says goes. Oh, they are lawyers, too… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brickers-betting-gambit/667992)._