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Tag: Voting Rights Act of 1965

Supreme Court shreds Voting Rights Act: Political cartoonists respond

June 28, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Courts, History, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The Supreme Court has opened the floodgates: Less than a year since state legislatures, governors and secretaries of state in both the north and

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This is what happens when the Supreme Court loses sight of common sense

June 26, 2013 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Courts, Ethics, Federalism, Obama, Politics, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Perhaps if it hadn’t been for the Bush v Gore Supreme Court case, we would give the Supremes the benefit of the doubt when

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Lessons learned by a clipboard-carrying, voter registration volunteer

October 22, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Missouri region, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The deadline for voter registration has come and gone in my state. But the memories linger on. Carrying a clipboard stocked with the 19th-century

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Civil rights: How different is today from 1965?

March 30, 2012 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Civil Rights, Congress, Human Rights, Politics, Poverty, States, Voting/Elections, Women, Youth issues Leave a comment

The federal Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. Ironically, it passed just a year after Republican Senator Barry Goldwater’s launched his southern strategy

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