Feb 18, 2013

Voting Rights Act

     The NY (watch the pay wall) Times reports this morning about the SCOTUS hearing set for the 27th on an Alabama challenge to the Voting Rights Act.
     Shelby County is the lead plaintiff, arguing that all's well, or at least mostly well, in Alabama, when it comes to voting rights.
     The Time story quotes a voter in Evergreen as saying some of the same difficulties for black voters that were in effect when the act was approved still exist today.
     The state and numerous other conservative entities have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the case.
     The act covers states, mostly southerns states, that were historically belligerent to minority voters.

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