The Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act Monday, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement that helped dismantle decades of discriminatory voting restrictions in the South when it passed 60 years ago. The vote was 5-4, with the court's liberal justices dissenting.
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Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, reauthorized by Congress in 2006, gives the federal government the ability to pre-emptively reject changes to election law in states and counties that have a history of discriminating against minority voters. The law covers nine states and portions of seven more, most of them in the South. The formula used to decide which states are subject to this special scrutiny (set out in Section 4 of the law) is based on decades-old voter turnout and registration data, the justices ruled, which is unfair to the states covered under it.
Supreme Court strikes down key part of Voting Rights Act(yahoo news today)
MSNBC will be burning tonight, at least this will dampen their celibration if the gay rights cases go bad.
Likely to be an issue in 2016. “Make sure we elect Hillary to replace right wing justices....”
The VRA is over.
Chris Matthews will have a conniption...