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Voting Rights Act

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia waits to be introduced to speak at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) October 2, 2012 in Washington, DC. The American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society held a book discussion with Justice Scalia, who co-authored the book 'Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts.' (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Scalia's take on Voting Rights Act a slap in the face

David A. Love
OPINION - The justice also criticized attempts to expand the number of minority groups protected by the federal government, noting that child abusers are a minority, but that doesn’t mean they deserve protection...
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NEW ORLEANS, LA - NOVEMBER 15: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addresses the media while announcing new criminal charges and settlement in the case against the BP oil company on November 15, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. BP will pay $4.5 billion dollars in the settlement and plead guilty to 14 criminal charges. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Eric Holder wants Voting Rights Act provision upheld

Peter Yost, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Attorney General Eric Holder challenged the Supreme Court to uphold a key section of the Voting Rights Act...
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In this March 5, 2013 photo, University of Texas senior Bradley Poole poses for a photo on campus near the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Austin, Texas. Poole, an advertising major, became president of the school's Black Student Alliance, seeking camaraderie after noticing he often was the only African-American in his classes. In two pivotal legal cases, one on affirmative action and another on voting rights, a divided U.S. Supreme Court may be poised in the coming weeks to rule that racism is largely a relic of America's past. The question is apt as the nation nears a demographic tipping point, when non-whites become the country's majority for the first time. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

A post-racial US? Court poised to change race laws

Hope Yen, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?
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Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (R) marches with a crowd across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 1965 Bloody Sunday Voting Rights March March 4, 2007 in Selma, Alabama. During the 1965 march, which was to go from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, police used tear gas and beat back the marchers when they reached the Pettus Bridge. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

'Bloody Sunday' bridge named national landmark

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theGRIO REPORT - The location is one of 13 new sites to receive federal recognition, including the home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harrier Beecher Stowe and Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson N.J., which once served as a home-field to Negro League baseball teams...
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Voting Rights

Why we still need the Voting Rights Act

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer
OPINION - I will never forget watching President Obama unveil the statue of one of my personal heroes in Statuary Hall last week – allowing civil rights icon Rosa Parks to take her rightful place in our nation’s Capitol...
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Thousands of residents await the arrival of Vice President Joe Biden for the annual Bridge Crossing Ceremony in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 3, 2013. Biden is traveling to Selma on Sunday to participate in the Bridge Crossing Jubilee. The event commemorates the 1965 march, which prompted Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act and add millions of African-Americans to Southern voter rolls. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Biden leads re-enactment of voting rights march

Phillip Rawls, Associated Press
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans' votes haven't stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act...
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From left, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, during a rally before oral arguments in the Shelby County, Ala., v. Holder voting rights case. The justices are hearing arguments in a challenge to the part of the Voting Rights Act that forces places with a history of discrimination, mainly in the Deep South, to get approval before they make any change in the way elections are held. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Voting rights law gets Supreme Court challenge

Mark Sherman, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative justices voiced deep skepticism Wednesday about a section of a landmark civil rights law that has helped millions of Americans exercise their right to vote...
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How the Supreme Court could reshape racial politics in America

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theGRIO REPORT - If it rules as expected in two closely-watched cases over the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court, lead by five conservative justices, will cement a view it has already suggested in the past: America is increasingly beyond race...
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In this Aug. 6, 1965, photo, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President's Room near the Senate Chambers on Capitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo)

Can escape clause save voting rights provision?

Mark Sherman, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law...
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A voter gets directions on how to use the electronic voting booth at the Board of Elections early voting site on October 18, 2012 in Wilson, North Carolina. Today is the last day to register and the first day to vote for the election in North Carolina. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

Obama: Keep key Voting Rights Act provision

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says it will become harder to help people who believe their voting rights have been violated if the Supreme Court strikes down a key part of a voting rights law...
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