“States line up to challenge stringent Section 5 voting rights provision”

Must-read Bob Barnes piece in WaPo: “The Supreme Court’s recent actions ‘have indicated that Section 5 is living on borrowed time,’ Columbia University law professor Nathaniel Persily told the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last week. ‘Assuming the personnel on the court remains constant, the question is not whether the court will declare Section 5 unconstitutional, but when and how.'”

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