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Setback. what's your analysis. >> i can understand why they were disappointed. it's amajor loss for the administration. we also need to keep it in perspective. it's still unlawful to engage in practices to reduce the voting of minority groups. the act itself is not struck down. we're only talking about the preclearance portion that affects the 16 states. it remains law in effect. the prohibitions remain in effect. the court said it didn't like section 4 which isolated these states because it said you're relying on statistics from 1965 but court said when we looked at statistics that congress l...

New formula. the opinion written by chief justice roberts strikes down section four. that's the portion that set the formula to determine if a state or county required preapproval before making any voting changes. this preclearance portion of the act is called section five. that section survives. but it has no impact unless congress figures out a new formula and agrees on it. and with this current congress, the odds of that happening are slim. the justices are back tomorrow for the final day of the term. that means the final two big cases will be decided then, doma and prop 8, same-sex marriag...

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