Read more Voting Rights Act stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5195/voting-rights-act.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:41:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/63064/roberts-labors-to-bring-divided-court-together.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn Roberts told the Senate in 2005 that the Supreme Court was too polarized, and as chief justice he promised to encourage harmony between the court's left and right blocs. Last week he delivered, with two 8-1 decisions on the Voting Rights Act and the strip-search of a 13-year-old girl....http://www.newser.com/story/63064/roberts-labors-to-bring-divided-court-together.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 7:35:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62540/court-will-quash-key-voting-act-provision-next-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagToday’ non-decision by the Supreme Court on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is actually a stern repudiation, Tom Goldstein writes for SCOTUSblog. Reading between the lines, Goldstein surmises that the court will strike down Section 5 when the next challenge comes if Congress does not significantly alter it...http://www.newser.com/story/62540/court-will-quash-key-voting-act-provision-next-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Jun 2009 17:20:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62519/supreme-court-sidesteps-major-voting-rights-ruling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Supreme Court ruled narrowly today in a challenge to the Voting Rights Act, exempting a small Texas district from a key provision of the law, but side-stepping the larger constitutional issue. The act requires Southern areas with a history of discrimination to get advance federal approval before changing election...http://www.newser.com/story/62519/supreme-court-sidesteps-major-voting-rights-ruling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Jun 2009 11:04:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54622/tiny-towns-move-may-redefine-voting-rights-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Supreme Court case may soon bring about a momentous change in the nation's voting laws, all because a Texas town of 3,500 moved a polling station three blocks, the Wall Street Journal reports. A local official made the switch to a more convenient location, galled that he needed...http://www.newser.com/story/54622/tiny-towns-move-may-redefine-voting-rights-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 28 Mar 2009 9:27:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52849/supreme-court-limits-power-of-voting-rights-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Supreme Court ruled today that a part of the Voting Rights Act aimed at helping minorities elect their preferred candidates only applies in electoral districts where minorities make up more than half the population, the AP reports. The decision could make it harder for some minority candidates to win...http://www.newser.com/story/52849/supreme-court-limits-power-of-voting-rights-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Mar 2009 16:26:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/47525/high-court-to-hear-challenge-to-voting-rights-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US Supreme Court agreed today to hear a case that challenges a central section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act designed to protect minority voters in discriminatory districts, the New York Times reports. Section 5 of the law, which forces many Southern states and select districts elsewhere to get...http://www.newser.com/story/47525/high-court-to-hear-challenge-to-voting-rights-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Jan 2009 15:23:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41723/an-obama-win-would-belong-to-lbj.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUnless the polls are wrong, the winner of today’s election is clear: Lyndon Baines Johnson. “We have lost the South for a generation,” Johnson said when he signed the Civil Rights Act. Well, “for that generation, time’s up,” Richard Cohen writes in the Washington Post . Barack Obama isn’t a transformational...http://www.newser.com/story/41723/an-obama-win-would-belong-to-lbj.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Nov 2008 12:02:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/36019/after-43-years-lbjs-dream-is-realized-tonight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination tonight, author Robert A. Caro will be remembering another speech: Lyndon Johnson's 1965 address to Congress urging the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In that speech, which reduced Martin Luther King to tears, LBJ "adopted the great anthem of the civil rights...http://www.newser.com/story/36019/after-43-years-lbjs-dream-is-realized-tonight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 28 Aug 2008 10:12:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35708/some-blacks-think-obama-could-threaten-progress.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDespite being a landmark in black American history, Barack Obama’s pending nomination could stall civil rights progress, some blacks say, because his success could fuel an argument that racial divisions have been healed, the New York Times reports. The danger is “that we declare victory,” a sociologist said. “Historic as...http://www.newser.com/story/35708/some-blacks-think-obama-could-threaten-progress.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 25 Aug 2008 8:43:35 CDT