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Young lawyer who helped write voting rights bill 'star-struck' as he witnessed 1965 signing into law
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJoel Finkelstein is an accidental witness to one of the seminal events of the civil rights movement,...
Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision Will Help Democrats’ Chances Of Reclaiming House
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan finding that Alabama violated the Voting Rights...
Supreme Court tossed out the heart of Voting Rights Act a decade ago. Next ruling could go further
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWithin hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act,...
The Supreme Court Actually Upheld the Voting Rights Act for Once
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAfter a decade of steadily chipping away at the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court actually upheld...
The Supreme Court May Soon Gut What’s Left Of The Voting Rights Act
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAlabama Republicans' argument for a race-blind approach to redistricting could lead to the "biggest...
Supreme Court rules — just barely — that racial gerrymandering still violates voting rights
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 11 months agoDemonstrators gather in front of the US Supreme Court.OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images The...
"Devastating": Experts sound the alarm over court ruling that poses “direct threat to democracy”
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 months agoVoting rights protest Alex Wong/Getty Images A federal appeals court refused to rehear a case that...
The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act for 9 years. This case could be the next...
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been slowly whittled away over the last decade by the Supreme Court — and a case set to be heard in the fall could shrink the protections offered by the law ...
Voting rights are under attack nationwide - The Excerpt
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 month agoOn a special episode (first released on March 31, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: At the State of the Union, President Biden called on Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement ...
In Selma, Biden says right to vote remains under assault
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSELMA, Ala. — President Joe Biden used the searing memories of Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” to recommit...