FORUM COLUMN
By Benjamin Todd Jealous On the 100th day of President Barack Obama's administration, April 29, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District 1 v. Eric Holder Jr., a case brought by conservative lawyers to try to derail the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Their strategy was to find a test case from a tiny, virtually all-white municipal district in Texas, to have Section 5 - often called the heart of the V...
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