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Countdown Day 9: Conservatives should embrace Jim Sensenbrenner’s efforts to update the Voting Rights Act by Armstrong Williams of Amsterdam News First enacted in 1965, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) prohibited discriminatory voting practices that had been used to deny people, especially people of color, their constitutional right to vote. This landmark law had wide bipartisan support […]
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Countdown Day 8: The Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Monday that it would hold a hearing on voting rights on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder. The hearing is entitled, “The Voting Rights Amendment Act, S. 1945: Updating the Voting Rights Act in Response to Shelby County v. Holder.” It will be […]
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Countdown Day 7: Since the Supreme Court’s devastating decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which left millions of Americans without the vital protections of the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance process, civil society organizations all around the country have banded together in calling on Congress to pass the Voting Rights Amendment Act. The VRAA strengthens, updates, and modernizes the Voting […]
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Countdown Day 6: New Report by Civil and Human Rights Coalition Details Recent Voting Discrimination Report Contains Almost 150 Violations against Voters of Color, Shows Persistent Modern-Day Discrimination across the Country The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights today released a new report, The Persistent Challenge of Voting Discrimination, which details nearly 150 recent […]
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Countdown Day 5: On One-Year Anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder Decision, Ifill to Urge Passage of Bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act (New York, NY)–On the one-year anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decision that gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, the leader of the civil rights organization that litigated the case before the […]
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Countdown Day 22: The Voting Rights Amendment Act is a critical piece of legislation that was proposed by a bipartisan group of Members of Congress in response to the United States Supreme Court’s devastating decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. Here is a list of the top ten things you should know about the VRAA: […]
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Countdown Day 21: Virginia NAACP, LULAC, & League of Women Voters Call on Congressmen Goodlatte and Cantor to Move Forward on Voting Rights Amendment Act Groups Take Out Full Page Ads in Roanoke Times and Richmond Times-Dispatch On Wednesday, June 5th, local chapters of civil rights and voting groups are taking out full page ads […]
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Countdown Day 20: Since the Supreme Court’s opinion in Shelby County, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund has been tracking all the instances in which state and local jurisdictions have attempted to implement discriminatory voting changes. Of course, without the preclearance mechanism applying in covered jurisdictions, these changes can be implemented without being reviewed first to ensure […]
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Countdown Day 2: Voting rights in danger one year after Shelby County Supreme Court ruling By Zachary Roth Originally printed by MSNBC Since the Supreme Court badly weakened the Voting Rights Act (VRA) a year ago, on June 25, 2013, states across the south and beyond have taken a barrage of steps to make it harder for […]
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Countdown Day 19: Councilman Ernest Montgomery is a community leader in Shelby County, Alabama. Mr. Montgomery was also our client in Shelby County, Alabama vs. Holder in which the Supreme Court struck down the preclearance mechanism that required states and jurisdictions to preclear voting changes with the federal government beforehand. The reflection below details how Mr. Montgomery […]
