Voting Rights

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June 26, 2013
COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) - Much has changed in Shelby County since Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to protect…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson, reacted with disappointment to Tuesday's Supreme Court decision striking down a…
June 25, 2013
OPINION - The Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, is devastating, but not definitive...
June 25, 2013
OPINION - In our society, all rights are ultimately protected by the ballot box, not the sword...
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Supreme Court's conservatives struck down a key plank in the Voting Rights Act, but still left…
June 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is deeply disappointed with a Supreme Court decision halting the use of…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In striking down one of the central planks of the Voting Rights Act, the conservatives on the…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The fall of a key plank of the Voting Rights Act is an unquestionable setback to civil…
June 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until…
June 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday used a tribute to 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass to renew the…
June 18, 2013
OPINION - Are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia parting political ways?...
May 31, 2013
OPINION - It’s should come as no surprise that Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is taking steps to rid the states…
May 31, 2013
OPINION - Two critical voting rights opinions will be issued by the Supreme Court this term, which ends on June…
May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the…
April 30, 2013
OPINION - Twelve years after the controversial Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is…
April 18, 2013
OPINION - The justice also criticized attempts to expand the number of minority groups protected by the federal government, noting…
April 5, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Attorney General Eric Holder challenged the Supreme Court…
March 10, 2013
OPINION - I will never forget watching President Obama unveil the statue of one of my personal heroes in Statuary…
March 3, 2013
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts…
February 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights…