LDF Successfully Defends the Heart of the Voting Rights Act

To: LEGAL AFFAIRS AND NATIONAL EDITORS Federal Court Upholds Key Provisions Protecting Minority Voters NEW YORK, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, for the second time in the past year, a federal court in Washington, D.C. upheld the constitutionality of the heart of the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. The case, Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, involved a challenge to the Section 5 "preclearance" provision of the Voting Rights Act, which requires states and jurisdictions with some of the worst histories of voting discrimination, such...