And so, a lot of, it is sort of codifying these rules and regulations and stopping insidious-minded people from imposing these really, really onerous restrictions.
Kennedy later learned the boy had been sent to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, a national disgrace that was later codified into law by the court's Korematsu decision.
All of these things that were protected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would basically be codified into law and made so that states cannot have more onerous restrictions on the right to vote.