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Anniversary of landmark legislationOn Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. The anniversary of this landmark legislation provides the opportunity to reflect back on the initial event, examine the present, and...

July 30, 2021 It didn’t happen without a struggle back then either. Registering to vote in Macon, Ga., 1962.Credit...United States Information Agency/PhotoQuest, via Getty Images Opinion Columnist The attack on voting rights in this country is partisan. The response must be partisan as well. But whether out of unspoken political concerns or genuine conviction, key Democrats in Washington do not have the stomach for the partisan combat it would take to stop that attack. “The right to vote is...

Early Years William Alexander Anderson was born on May 11, 1842, at Montrose, near Fincastle in Botetourt County, the eldest of three sons and sixth of nine children of Francis Thomas Anderson, later a justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, and Mary Ann Alexander Anderson. He was educated at home and also attended the Fincastle Academy. Anderson enrolled at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington in 1857 but did not graduate. In April 1861 he left schoo...

This editorial was written by the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board of the South Florida Sun Sentinel In its most infamous decision, the Dred Scott case of 1857, the Supreme Court remarked that Blacks “had no rights which the white man is bound to respect.” Today, America wonders whether Blacks — and other minorities — have any voting rights that the court’s present majority is bound to respect. On July 1 the court upheld, 6 to 3, two features of Arizona law that have been p...

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board In its most infamous decision, the Dred Scott case of 1857, the Supreme Court remarked that Blacks “had no rights which the white man is bound to respect.” Today, America wonders whether Blacks — and other minorities — have any voting rights that the court’s present majority is bound to respect. On July 1 the court upheld, 6 to 3, two features of Arizona law that have been proved to have disparate effects on Black, Hispanic and Native Amer...

The new AG announced plans to double enforcement staff to protect the right to vote.

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Early Years and Civil War Edmund Randolph Cocke was born at Oakland, one of two Cumberland County plantations owned by his parents, William Armistead Cocke and Elizabeth Randolph Preston Cocke, on March 25, 1841. In 1856 he matriculated at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University). Intellectually gifted but shy and sometimes indolent, Cocke ranked near the bottom of his class during the first of his two years at that institution. Nevertheless, in 1858 the College of New Jersey (l...

If the right to vote is fundamental, then it cannot be subject to veto by partisans who benefit from disenfranchisement.