Recent court rulings in five separate states have overturned portions of voting laws the courts determined specifically restricted voting rights among minorities.
Two unrelated federal court rulings on Friday explicitly stated that voter ID laws in North Carolina and Wisconsin were created to disenfranchise Black voters. On Monday, a federal judge in North Dakota blocked a state voter ID law that he said unfairly burdens Native Americans.
A federal appeals court in Texas two weeks ago found that the state’s voter ID law was discriminatory and violated the U.S. Voting Rights Act by making it harder for Blacks and Latinos to vote.
