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Voting Rights Act: Time to Make Lemonade

LA Progressive: Democracy Activists Play Defense After Court Ruling

The Supreme Court’s activist conservative majority, in a 5-4 vote on June 25, threw out the provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which required states and localities (mostly in the Old Confederacy) to clear any changes in electoral law

On Tuesday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed the Supreme Court’s decision on the case of Shelby, Alabama v. Attorney General Eric Holder, in which Chief Justice John Roberts and the four other conservative…