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May 7, 2009

Black President or Not, Protecting the Voting Rights Act Is Still Crucial

Getting rid of a vital section of the Votings Rights Act would be an enormous step backward, writes NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous.

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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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