NYT:

Saying that he wanted the Voting Rights Act to be protected, Mr. Carson told CNN: “Whether we still need it or not, whether we’ve outgrown the need for it, it’s questionable. Maybe we have. Maybe we haven’t. But I wouldn’t jeopardize it.”

Mr. Carson, who is black, went on to say that if he were president, he would reauthorize the act and that he did not understand Mr. Bush’s rationale.

The end of the article incorrectly suggests that the reason reauthorization won’t come up is because President George W. Bush reauthorized it in 2006 for 25 years. In fact, the only parts reauthorized for 25 years are Section 5 (which has been rendered inoperative by the Shelby County decision) and Section 203, language assistance provisions. The key Section 2 is permanent and does not come up for reauthorization.  (See my earlier post on some ambiguities in what Jeb Bush said today about this point.) The problem all stems from how the question to Jeb Bush today was phrased.