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: How AppealingThree-judge federal district court rejects argument that the U.S. Congress in 2006 lacked sufficient evidence of racial discrimination to extend Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for another twenty-five years
In early news coverage, The Associated Press provides a report headlined "Court: Voting Rights Act provision deemed constitutional."
Full post as published by How Appealing on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).
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