Opinion | DeanObeidallah: As it stands, America is less of a democracy today than it was in 1965. And that appears to be exactly what the GOP wants. - MSNBCDaily
that required photo identification to vote in person, finding that it was far more likely that voters of color would be disenfranchised by this measure than white voters., GOP officials in Texas implemented a strict voter ID measure that had previously been blocked under Section 5 after a federal court found it would have a discriminatory impact on people of color.
In the years that followed, the states that had been covered by the VRA at the time of the Shelby decision To be clear, the gutting of Section 5 of the VRA doesn’t mean that states can enact laws to expressly discriminate based on race — that is still unconstitutional. But when Section 5 was in effect, the burden was on the state to prove the laws were not discriminatory before the measures were allowed to go into effect.
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