NY TIMES -Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, freeing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval.
In the Pelican Brief by John Grisham there were two (2) Supremes caught up in murder and cover-ups.
- Crowley/The New York Times – Wade Henderson, president and C.E.O. of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, criticized the decision on Tuesday. The court divided along ideological lines, and the two sides drew sharply different lessons from the history of the civil rights movement and the nation’s progress in rooting out racial discrimination in voting. At the core of the disagreement was whether racial minorities continued to face barriers to voting in states with a history of discrimination.
Voter suppression was proven in Georgia and Florida in the 2018 Midterm Elections. Crooks on the loose.
