Christie says he has no opinion yet on Supreme Court’s Voting Rights decision

Chris Christie Refuses Response
SOUTH RIVER — Gov. Chris Christie said today he still has no opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month striking down the core of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Asked at a news conference today whether he had read the decision by Chief Justice John Roberts, Christie said he had not yet had a chance.

“I was on vacation,” Christie told reporters in South River.

The governor, who traveled to Sun Valley, Idaho, last week to attend a conference of leading philanthropists and tech executives sponsored by Allen & Co., said he was trying to find ways to attract more business to the Garden State.

In a 5-4 decision last month, the Supreme Court ruled that nine Southern states with a history of blocking minority voters from the polls, and several other districts including some in New York City, no longer need federal approval to change their election procedures. The Voting Rights Act was based on 40-year-old data that no longer applies, Roberts wrote, adding that Congress was free to update the law.

Bishop Reginald Jackson, the executive director of the Black Ministers Council of New Jersey, has endorsed the Republican governor based on his education policies, but he has also criticized the high court ruling and has urged Christie to address it.

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