Voting Rights Act

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November 9, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says it will consider eliminating the government's chief weapon against racial discrimination at polling…
October 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights…
October 1, 2012
NBC NEWS - The U.S. Supreme Court term that begins Monday promises to be one of the most important for…
August 6, 2012
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
July 19, 2012
Eric Holder's remarks last week that voter ID laws are a modern-day version of a poll tax are receiving criticism…
July 16, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A controversial voter identification law adopted earlier this year here could potentially prevent tens of thousands of…
June 27, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Texas Republican Party has a plank in their 2012 platform that could take the country back…
May 18, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an…
February 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Republicans are continuing to push controversial laws that could limit voting and voter registration drives...
January 9, 2012
From Color Lines: Justice Thomas claimed he wasn't even aware that he had to report his wife's income and corrected…
September 21, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled against Shelby County, Ala., which sued Attorney General Eric Holder to…
August 29, 2011
OPINION - It seems the GOP is on a campaign to rewrite American history and erase the lessons learned from…
August 5, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Voting Rights Act became law to end Jim Crow suppression of black voters, but today,…
July 11, 2011
OPINION - As a civil rights lawyer who works in the trenches, I am well aware of the barriers that…
June 7, 2011
OPINON - According to Rick Santorum, things were just fine in the U.S. before the creation of the welfare state...
February 21, 2011
OPINION - Had he survived into the Facebook era, his relationship status with race matters might well have been filed…
February 2, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge Bates' comments came during oral arguments in an Ala. county's lawsuit targeting the law -- one…