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Everything changed when a county in alabama won a landmark case. >> breaking news from the supreme court where justices have just struck down a key provision of the voting rights act. the most important civil rights law in the country. the courts 5-4 ruling in shelby county versus older states and municipalities with a history of racial discrimination from having to clear changes in voting procedures effectively ending the practice. >> the same day the supreme court striking it down, officials a...

Receive federal approval to change their voting procedures. all of the sate states on the list had a history of racial discrimination. since section 4 was knocked down, numerous states have gone on to pass laws, eliminate same-day voter registration and more all moves that disenfranchise minority voters. while this weekends events are a commemoration of the civil rights actions of 1965, so too are the modern day call to action to bring attention to the fact that in 20 a 15 the very thing fought ...

Summer gutted the voting rights act. the court struck down the part of the voting rights act which says that certain states and counties that have a history of racially discriminated voting restrictions, they need to get any changes to their voting procedures pre checked by the justice department to make sure those changes arent discriminatory. big parts of north carolina were covered by the preclearance sections of the voting rights act, but when the supreme court struck down that portion of th...

Parade that i was very happy to be right next door to. as far as, you know, whether or not conservatives or liberals are winning on this, a lot of conservatives saw the doma decision as being somewhat a conservative one, as maria suggested. the supreme court said that marriage -- the definition of marriage should be sort of a federalist issue and in the hands of the state and at least from my point of view, it makes perfect sense that if a state says that same-sex marriages are co-equal to oppos...

Way that it had before. the only real question was exactly what the court was going to do. so what the court wound up doing was they upheld section 5 of the voting rights act which requires state and local governments with a history of diskrings to go to the federal government and get approval before they can make any changes to the voting procedures. even things like moving a polling place across the street. so the court left that intact. it said you can still have that. but you need to change ...

One gutting that part of the voting rights act which requires nine states, mostly in the south, to obtain federal clearance before tinkering with voting procedures, and another which upheld affirmative action only in narrow circumstances and only after imposing strict scrutiny. when i opined on the radio that the collection of these headlines made me realize that race relations dont seem to be improving any time soon, and might be hampered by the changing demographics of the nation, my comment p...

Let me finish tonight with this. when it comes to race relations, this past week was one that suggested things arent getting any better. first, there was celebrity chef paula deen in a professional tailspin after acknowledging in a sworn deposition that she had used the n word. and then came the start of the george zimmerman trial in which facing charges. the first words uttered by john guy who was quoting zimmerman as he tailed martin. supreme court rulings. one gutting that part of the voting ...

Holder calls a setback has to be good because this is a guy, we really didnt think the new black panthers in philadelphia at the voting polls was a serious set back, suing specific states over certain things, that wasnt a serious set back. so when holder is disappointed, i walk a little happier. >> greg makes a good point. maybe most of america doesnt understand what section 4 is. that was a formula to determine which states had to get federal approval to change voting procedures, those states h...

The constitution said that the black people in the united states should each count as 3/4 of a person, then when they were freed, they were not exactly welcomed into the voting booths. they were subject to all sorts of discrimination, including murder, for simply attempting to register to vote, never mind actually voting. something had to be done but it took the country 100 years to do it. and in 1965. president johnson signed the voting rights act into law. it said essentially that in the parts...

Martha: breaking news out of the supreme court. they made a decision on the voting rights issue before them. its a huge decision. shannon bream joins us live outside the u.s. supreme court. they made some changes to the way that the voting rights act is viewed. what can you tell us? >> for folks to remember this is about the voting rights act was passed in the mid 1960s. it was passed so certain covered jurisdictions, there are several states and chunks of states where there has been a history o...