SCOTUS Rules Narrowly in Voting Rights Case
Washington Post News Alert
Monday, June 22, 2009
Supreme Court Rules Narrowly in Voting Rights Case
The Supreme Court has ruled narrowly in a challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act, exempting a small Texas governing authority from a key provision of the civil rights law. The court avoided the major constitutional questions raised in the case over the federal government’s most powerful tool to prevent discriminatory voting changes since the mid-1960s.
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