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The ruling came down just a day shy of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, signed by President Lyndon Johnson on Aug. 6, 1965. The federal law established rules to stop legal barriers preventing African-Americans from voting.
We discuss yesterday's Fifth Circuit ruling on the state's voter ID law and what happens next. We also look back on the history of the Voting Rights Act. Then, we revisit some of our past conversations about pre-clearance and the Texas voter ID law.