Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law that had been on hold.
Voter ID laws for voting are discriminatory in practice in the US, especially in southern states for a mulitide of reasons including barriers to getting the IDs, easily losing them due to discriminatory law enforcement, and many minorities not getting them for other reasons.
I would like to bring back into fashion the idea of writing it into the statutes which people it were that fucked up
“Everyone can do what they want, just remember, don’t break the law. Jefferson County: Hang back for a second, I want to talk to you a little more. Everyone else, I’ll see you next time.”