Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

I am still reading it but it seems to say that the South cannot be automatically discriminated against. That's a good thing. It also does not seem to require immediate redrawing of lines but only removes the requirement for pre-clearance of redistricting decisions until Congress passes new rules, based on the facts on the ground…

Step in right direction. I do not understand why it was not all deemed unconstitutional.

Finally, a good ruling from the Supreme Court!

Alabama loves it!  Hope our voter ID law is able to used in 2014.  The Supreme Court got this one right.

I would believe that Congress has continued to approve or extend the act because of the concern about threats of being called racist if they did not.  In our current climate when people who disagree with policy of our President are called racist, it is understandable that there would be this concern.  The media would…

I believe this was a good decision. When the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed it was never intended to be a law in perpetuity.  At the time it was necessary because there was widespread systematic discrimination based on skin color in several states in the south, but this is no longer an issue. …

A little ray of sense in a crazy world.