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SUPREME COURT NARROWS, BUT PRESERVES, VOTING RIGHTS ACT

June 22, 2009

In a unanimous decision, justices leave safeguards intact while allowing municipalities with a clean record to 'bail out.' The Supreme Court narrowed, but did not overturn, the historic Voting Rights Act today, ruling that municipalities across the South that have had a clean record for the last decade can seek an exemption from the law.



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