What does 'bailed out’mean in this context
Within a year of the decision Texas implemented discrimatory voting laws, proving that the federal oversight really was necessary.
What was the content of the discriminatory voting laws?
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.
My northern state has required id to vote for a long time. If you don’t have a driver license, you can get a non-driver id for free so you can vote.
