Sunday, February 24, 2013

Voting Rights Act to protect African-American and minority voters should be upheld - Obama

American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images

U.S. President Barack Obama argued Friday for keeping a key provision of federal voting rights law in place, saying it will become harder but not impossible to help people who believe their rights at the polls have been violated if the Supreme Court decides to strike down that part of the law.

The court has scheduled oral arguments for Wednesday on a challenge from Shelby County, Alabama, near Birmingham, to a section of the Voting Rights

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