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(161,040 posts)Supreme Court Seems Poised to Rule Against Part of Voting Rights Act
By ARIANE DeVOGUE (@Arianedevogue) , SARAH PARNASS (@WordsOfSarah) and ALEX MARINO
Feb. 27, 2013
Conservative justices on the Supreme Court continued to express strong reservations today about Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, suggesting the key provision of the law might be in danger.
That section of the law says that certain states, mostly in the South, must get any changes to voting regulations precleared by federal officials.
On this first day of arguments, Chief Justice John Roberts got to the heart of the debate. He asked whether the government thought that citizens in the South were "more racist" than citizens in the North.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-poised-rule-part-voting-rights-act/story?id=18608835
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