The Dallas Morning News offers this editorial, Renew the Voting Rights Act, and this oped by Katharine Inglis Butler, The Voting Rights Act is Unfair to Southern States and Texas. See also this ACLU Press release, urging a vote on a “clean” amendment, this editorial urging renewal from Knight Ridder, and Bilingual Bailout by Peter Kirsanow.
This AP report says that both amendments being proposed today on the floor of the House have little chance of passage.