Cenk Uygur
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Supreme Court Takes Huge Blow to Minority Voter Rights
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June 26, 2013
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June 26, 2013
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7:55Now Playing"The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday gutted a core part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act and challenged Congress to come up with a replacement plan to protect blacks and other minorities in places where discrimination still persists rather than target former slaveholding states in the South."*
In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has invalidated key points to the the Voting Rights Act of 1965. What does this mean? 9 states (mainly southern states) are now freed to change election laws without federal approval...putting minority voters at a big disadvantage potentially. Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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