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Things to know about the Voting Rights Act and the cases that could unravel it
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...
The Voting Rights Act marks its 60th anniversary as its core provisions are being eroded
The law has been slowly eroding for more than a decade, starting with the 2013 Supreme Court decision ending the requirement ...
The Voting Rights Act turns 60
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil ...