Supreme Court to Review Minority Voting Rights Law

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a legal challenge to the Voting Rights Act, a landmark law adopted in 1965 to protect African-American voters who had faced decades of discrimination at the polls.

The high court accepted an appeal brought by Shelby County, Alabama, challenging a core provision of the act that requires nine states and several local governments with a history of bias to get federal permission, Section 5, to change their election procedures.

I have been looking at this issue for awhile. I think we should expand Section 5 to ALL the states. This would require any state's change to their voting process to first be pre-approved before implementation.

This would then reduce the many court cases, that would have to initiated by the voter and good government groups, if Section 5 is struck down, that works their way to the court system generating lawyer's revenue and voter's pain in the pocket.










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