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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

STATE OF TEXAS, Plaintiff, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States, Defendant. ERIC KENNIE, et al., Defendant-Intervenors, TEXAS STATE CONFERENCE OF NAACP BRANCHES, et al., Defendant-Intervenors, TEXAS LEAGUE OF YOUNG VOTERS EDUCATION FUND, et al., Defendant-Intervenors. TEXAS LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS, et al., Defendant-Intervenors, VICTORIA RODRIGUEZ, et al., Defendant-Intervenors.

CASE NO. 1:12-CV-00128 (RMC-DST-RLW) Three-Judge Court

ATTORNEY GENERALS MOTION TO COMPEL THE PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS AND PRIVILEGE LOGS Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37, and pursuant to the briefing schedule proposed by the parties in their Joint Report on Discovery Issues (Doc. 80) and approved by the

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Court on April 17, 2012, Defendant Eric H. Holder Jr. respectfully moves for an order compelling the production of documents that the State of Texas has improperly withheld from discovery. For the reasons set out in the Attorney Generals Memorandum of Points and Authorities (Ex. 1), the State has misapplied three categories of privilege in response to the Attorney Generals First Set of Requests for Production of Documents (Mar. 20, 2012) (Ex. 2). First, Texas has improperly asserted that the deliberative process privilege over documents in the possession, custody, or control of the Office of the Governor. See Office of the Governors Privilege Log (Apr. 14, 2012) (Ex. 3); see also Plaintiffs Objections and Responses to Defendants First Set of Requests for Production (Mar. 30, 2012) (Ex. 4). Second, the State has claimed that a state legislative privilege extends to communications between a legislator and a state agency, as well as to purely internal documents produced by a state agency after communications with a legislator. See Department of Public Safetys Privilege Log (Apr. 14, 2012) (Ex. 5); Office of the Secretary of State Privilege Log (Apr. 20, 2012) (Ex. 6). Third, the State of Texas has incorrectly asserted that the attorney-client privilege and legislative privilege extend to communications between the Texas Legislative Council (TLC) and state legislators, although the State has not yet produced a privilege log concerning documents in the possession of the TLC. See Plaintiffs Objections and Responses to Defendants First Set of Requests for Production, supra. The Attorney General therefore respectfully requests that the Court enter the attached Proposed Order Compelling the Production of Documents and Privilege Logs (Ex. 7).

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Date: April 25, 2012 Respectfully submitted, RONALD C. MACHEN, JR. United States Attorney District of Columbia THOMAS E. PEREZ Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division

/s/ Daniel J. Freeman T. CHRISTIAN HERREN, JR. MEREDITH BELL-PLATTS ELIZABETH S. WESTFALL BRUCE I. GEAR JENNIFER L. MARANZANO DANIEL J. FREEMAN Attorneys Voting Section, Civil Rights Division U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 (800) 253-3931

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CERTIFICATE OF CONFERRAL I hereby certify that on April 16th and 17th, 2012, I met and conferred with counsel for the State of Texas in an effort to obtain the requested discovery without court intervention. /s/ Jennifer L. Maranzano JENNIFER L. MARANZANO U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 jennifer.maranzano@usdoj.gov

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on April 25, 2012, I served a true and correct copy of the foregoing via the Courts ECF system on the following counsel of record: Jonathan Franklin Mitchell Adam W. Aston Matthew Hamilton Frederick Office of the Attorney General of Texas jonathan.mitchell@oag.state.tx.us adam.aston@oag.state.tx.us matthew.frederick@oag.state.tx.us Counsel for Plaintiff J. Gerald Hebert hebert@voterlaw.com Chad W. Dunn Brazil & Dunn chad@brazilanddunn.com Counsel for Kennie Intervenors Debo P. Adegbile Leah C. Aden Ryan Haygood Dale E. Ho Natasha Korgaonkar NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund dadegbile@naacpldf.org laden@naacpldf.org rhaygood@naacpldf.org dho@naacpldf.org nkorgaonkar@naacpldf.org Counsel for Texas League of Young Voters Intervenors Nancy G. Abudu M. Laughlin McDonald Michelle Hart Yeary American Civil Liberties Union nabudu@aclu.org Jon M. Greenbaum Mark A. Posner Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights mposner@lawyerscommittee.org jgreenbaum@lawyerscommittee.org Ezra David Rosenberg Dechert LLP ezra.rosenberg@dechert.com Robert Stephen Notzon Robert@notzonlaw.com Counsel for NAACP Intervenors John Tanner john.k.tanner@gmail.com

Counsel Texas Legislative Black Caucus Proposed Intervenors

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Nina Perales Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. nperales@maldef.org Counsel for Rodriguez Proposed Intervenors

/s/ Daniel J. Freeman DANIEL J. FREEMAN U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 daniel.freeman@usdoj.gov