nytimes.com - 1/14/2009
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The Supreme Court will decide whether a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is still necessary. >
csmonitor.com - 1/10/2009
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White firefighters in New Haven, Conn., say the
city should have considered test results. By Warren Richey...
| Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor posted January 09, 2009 at 4:15 p.m. EST The US Supreme Court has agreed to take up a potential ...
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U.S. Supreme Court takes up 'reverse discrimination' case
usatoday.com - 1/9/2009
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The justices could say as early as Friday
if they will hear a challenge to the landmark...
1965 Voting Rights Act renewed by Congress in 2006. Their decision could impact federal power to oversee state election practices and to ensure racial minorities ...
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Supreme Court considers challenge to Voting Rights Act
talkleft.com - 1/17/2009
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An 8th grade student in Safford, Arizona, found
in possession of two prescription-strength ibuprofen pills, told school...
officials she got them from another student, Savana Redding. School officials searched Savana’s belongings, made her strip ...
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Supreme Court Takes Strip Search Case
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Mark Crispin Miller: Supreme Court hopes to kill the Voting Rights Act
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A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION by Mark Crispin Miller On Friday, The New York Times reported that the Supreme Court will rule on whether Congress had the right to extend the Voting Rights Act. Specifically, SCOTUS will decide the constitutionality of Congress's renewal of Section 5 -- the Act's provision that certain states and municipalities get federal permission (called "preclearance") before making any changes that affect the voting by their residents. The states concerned are mostly in the South, and all have had rich histories of electoral malfeasance, largely aimed at ...
John Wellington Ennis: Ken Blackwell Redefines Racism
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... Right now, the Supreme Court is hearing a case that challenges renewing aspects of the Voting Rights Act. Redistricting in all 50 states is set to occur over the next several years, and certain areas in the South with entrenched histories of disenfranchising black voters need authority from the Justice Department, called "preclearance." ...
Gerrymandering on Trial
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... in the New York Times believes will "set the direction of the debate over race and politics for years to come." That opinion is shared by election law Prof. Rick Hasen of Loyola University Law School, who notes , "This could be the biggest election-law case on the court's docket since Bush v. Gore ." The lawsuit will test the constitutionality of Section 5 of the recently reauthorized Voting Rights Act (2006). Section 5 forbids all of nine states and their political subdivisions in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and ...
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