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Colbert: Racism is solved! Drop the fully integrated balloons!
On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert paid homage to the Voting Rights Act, the historic law passed in 1965 to ensure fair treatment of African-Americans at the polls in states with a history of racial discrimination. Colbert began the segment by revealing that he attended…
Jon Stewart rips opponents of the Voting Rights Act
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart slammed the opponents of the Voting Rights Act. Section 5 of the civil rights-era measure requires laws affecting voters in jurisdictions with a history of voting discrimination to be approved by the Justice Department or a federal court. A…
Maddow tells ‘Daily Show’: Sotomayor and Scalia brawled over Voting Rights Act
Appearing on Thursday night’s episode of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” MSNBC progressive news host Rachel Maddow recounted her trip to the Supreme Court earlier in the week to watch the justices debate the Voting Rights Act, on the same day that a statue of Rosa Parks was being…
Scalia: Voting Rights Act is a ‘perpetuation of racial entitlement’
Conservative justices on the United State Supreme Court hinted on Wednesday that the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) would soon be ruled unconstitutional. The landmark achievement of the civil rights movement sought to stop discrimination against black voters by barring poll taxes and literacy tests in southern states, but the…
NAACP warns Supreme Court: Thwart assault on Voting Rights Act or risk return to ‘old poison’
Debo Adegbile to go before supreme court to defend Voting Rights Act and argue key provision should not be struck down The lawyer who will next week go before the US supreme court to defend the Voting Rights Act has warned that if a key provision of the law that…
Black conservatives launch effort to scrap part of Voting Rights Act
A group of prominent black conservatives is trying to help scrap a key part of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights-era legislation that enshrined the right of black Americans to have equal treatment at the ballot box. The law was signed in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson in…
Supreme Court to hear Voting Rights Act challenge
A cornerstone of the Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 to protect minority groups in southern states from unjust voting laws, could be overturned this year, reported Bloomberg. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the part of the law that requires all or part of 16 states in…
Civil rights group file legal challenges nationwide against GOP-pushed Voter ID laws
A rash of legal challenges to a core piece of US civil rights legislation is threatening the foundations of nearly half a century of laws to combat racial discrimination. Republican-led state legislatures from Florida and Texas to Alaska have engineered a series of legal showdowns with the federal government over…
Texas redistricting rejected under Voting Rights Act
A panel of U.S. judges has determined that election districts drawn up in Texas after the 2010 census are in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Bloomberg News is reporting that minorities’ ability to vote their interests has been strategically minimized under the current electoral map’s guidelines. The…
Texas to challenge Justice Department’s block of voter ID law
Texas will launch a challenge to a central piece of civil rights legislation in a Washington court on Monday in a case the Obama administration has characterised as a fight to protect the right to vote. The five-day hearing will rule on whether the US justice department has the power…
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