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The Fifteenth Amendment provides that “[t]he right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” and it gives Congress “power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” One searches the Constitution in vain for language forbidding the Voting Rights Act application of some of its strongest medicine to jurisdictions judged to have the worst record of voter suppression. thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/08/2262691/bush-appointed-judge-slams-decision-striking-voting-rights-act-courts-reasoning-was-made-up/
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:19:18 +0000

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