Bloomberg Law
Oct. 18, 2016, 6:26 PM UTC

Voting Rights: New Laws, New Cases After U.S. Supreme Court Ruling

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By Mark Niquette, Bloomberg News

Some court rulings end fights. Others rev them up. Courts and legislatures across the U.S. continue to grapple with a big question the Supreme Court tossed onto the political battlefield in 2013: Has the country overcome its history of racial discrimination enough to justify relaxing laws against it? Since the court voted to throw out a core element of the 1965Voting Rights Act , many of the states that until then had faced restrictions on election-law changes pushed forward with measures to tighten eligibility requirements for casting a ballot. The states that took action, ...

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