{"id":26413,"date":"2012-11-10T17:48:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26413"},"modified":"2012-11-10T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T17:48:29","slug":"justices-to-revisit-voting-act-in-view-of-a-changing-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26413","title":{"rendered":"Justices to Revisit Voting Act in View of a Changing South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/10\/us\/supreme-court-to-revisit-voting-rights-act.html\" target=\"_blank\">Justices to Revisit Voting Act in View of a Changing South<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-11-09<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/l\/adam_liptak\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Liptak<\/a><\/strong>, Supreme Court Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would take a fresh look at the constitutionality of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voting_Rights_Act\" target=\"_blank\">Voting Rights Act of 1965<\/a>, one of the signature legacies of the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, the court signaled that part of the law may no longer be needed, and the law\u2019s challengers said <strong>the re-election of the nation\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">first black president<\/a> is proof that the nation has moved beyond the racial divisions that gave rise to efforts to protect the integrity of elections in the South.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The law \u201cis stuck in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a>-era time warp,\u201d said Edward P. Blum, director of the Project on Fair Representation, a small legal foundation that helped organize the suit.<\/p>\n<p>Civil rights leaders, on the other hand, pointed to the role the law played in the recent election, <strong>with courts relying on it to block voter identification requirements and cutbacks on early voting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the midst of the recent assault on voter access, the Voting Rights Act is playing a pivotal role beating back discriminatory voting measures,\u201d said Debo P. Adegbile, the acting president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People\" target=\"_blank\">NAACP<\/a> Legal Defense and Educational Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on the law, expected by June, could reshape how elections are conducted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/10\/us\/supreme-court-to-revisit-voting-rights-act.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justices to Revisit Voting Act in View of a Changing South The New York Times 2012-11-09 Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would take a fresh look at the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the signature legacies of the civil rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1467,8,20],"tags":[12684,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-26413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adam-liptak","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}