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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…
Illinois woman votes while in labor
Nothing was going to stop first-time voter Galicia Malone from casting her ballot in Tuesday’s US elections — not even the imminent birth of her first child. The 21-year-old from Dolton, Illinois, a suburb of President Barack Obama’s adopted hometown Chicago, had been in labor since the middle of the…
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