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Supreme Court appears to favor upholding voting laws lower court found unfair to minorities Robert Barnes, The Washington Post March 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to make it more difficult to challenge widely used voting laws that in practice might be more of a burden to minority voters. The justices spent two hours in a teleconference hearing reviewing the protections provided by the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965 to forbid laws that result in discrimination based on race. The cases involve two voting regulations in Arizona t...

>> also african-american. >> also african-american and the first african-american woman living at the intersection of those multiple identities and a southerner. how effective can her doj be in using section 2 in pushing against the very things amy is referring to here? >> well they're going to need to be more proactive because the court has gutted section 5, the preclearance provision to some extent because it didn't like the formula in another section, section 4. but here's another thing courts could do on their own even without congressional involvement, because they have been doing a lot o...

Rights act should be the john lewis renewal act and in fact the supreme court said oh that voting rights act, that's so 1960s. we're beyond that. you used a phrase living document. here's how we can actually revise the voting rights act because the court struck down a provision that said you're using old data for which states were compliant so let's update the database. >> and that's not a completely unfair critique. of all the things the court said in it it's not completely unfair to suggest that the south is still now uniquely troublesome when we saw pennsylvania, ohio these other states out...

Suppression efforts. >> what happens now if a state is really egregious, like you have to have so much documentation, you wear people out, they say, look, i'm 80 years old, i'm not going to get my papers figured out at this age. i'm not going to go to whatever office i have to go to, i have been voting all my life. people know me at the voting station, i'm not going to bother. does this wear voters out is this is that what this is about. >> this is an added burden for voters, especially for voters who are older, it's also a burden for students, it's a burden for anybody that doesn't have a dri...