Voting Rights Act of 1965

21 May Voting Rights Act of 1965

A federal appeals panel ruled in August that Texas’s voter ID law, which was passed in 2011, discriminates against blacks and Hispanics and violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The panel ordered a lower court to re-evaluate if the law was in fact written with discriminatory intent and to fix it if it was passed under such circumstances.