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Carefully, as julie mentioned, and studies done at the time and since have shown that the repetitive and adaptive discrimination happens in certain places. congress never said the voting discrimination only happens there. what it said is we need a special response in the places where the case-by-case method is inadequate. >> really important point, too. these distinction are not preserved in amber. there is a way, if you feel like, oh, i'm the city of boston, this is unfair, we're under the voting rights act and have a really clean record, you can get out of it, right? >> the whole idea of the...

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Sections 4 and 5 were reauthorized in 2006 just seven years ago with the unanimous support of the united states senate and the near unanimous support of the senate. this is legislative function and sponl sponlts that the constitution gave to congress. the last reauthorizization was signed into law by george w. bush just as prior reauthorizations had been signed by president ford, reagan and nixon with core non-partisan values. racial and language minorities face significant voting discrimination in some parts of our country. successful decisions on the voting rights acts cases over the last 18...

But this morning almost half a century after it was first passed, the supreme court struck down a key portion of the law. chief justice robert's position is that the world does not look the same as it did in 1965. according to roberts, our country has changed and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, congress must ensure that the legislation it pass toes remedy that problem speaks to current conditions. congress had overwhelmingly extended the voting rights act as recently as 2006 for another 25 years. in a statement today president obama said he is deeply disappointed with th...

Through, she said that commitment has been disserved by today's decision. now one little footnote here. this does not strike down the entire voting rights act. individual civil rights groups can still sue local governments whether they make election changes, and the justice department can still sue to put a state or a county or a city in to the coverage under section 5. but that would and very difficult process. it has to do it case by says, it would have to assemble the facts that there had been a history of discrimination that continued. so that's an option but i don't know how effective an ...