A rash of legal challenges to a core piece of US civil rights legislation is threatening the foundations of nearly half a century of laws to combat racial discrimination.
Republican-led state legislatures from Florida and Texas to Alaska have engineered a series of legal showdowns with the federal government over the 1965 Voting Rights Act that, following several court rulings last week, appear likely to end up before a US supreme court [3] which has already hinted it is ready to revisit the heart of the law.
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[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/sep/06/civil-rights-voting-under-threat-discrimination
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[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/us-supreme-court
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