In Texas, a federal judge has barred state election officials from carrying out a purge of voting rolls that could have seen thousands of naturalized citizens wrongfully barred from voting in the next election. Wednesday’s order by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas comes a month after Texas’ secretary of state flagged the names of nearly 100,000 registered voters who declared they were not U.S. citizens when obtaining a driver’s license. Civil rights groups say most—if not all—of those flagged were later naturalized and that the Republican-led effort to purge voter rolls was aimed at suppressing the vote of Latinos in Texas.