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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 announced the voter i.d. law would be going ahead as plan which brings us to the closing of 31 dmv lo...

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 weekend's 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 for on that bridge 50 years ago is still coming under assault. the unobstructed right to vote. i'm ...

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 aren't 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 the act, north carolina republicans pounced and they radically moved to restrict voting in the state....

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 opposite-sex marriages, so should the federal government and recognize that state's definition of marriag...

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 the criteria that you use to figure out who's covered. it sent the ball back across the street to co...