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The Decision That Could End Voting Rights | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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Google-News-Wire
- November 23, 2023
- aftermath of Reconstruction
- Alabama
- American democracy
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- voting-rights foeThe Constitution
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A federal court’s opinion yesterday could render the Voting Rights Act meaningless, if the Supreme Court upholds it. Robert Abbott Sengstacke / Getty November 21, 2023, 9:32 AM ET The right to vote free of racial discrimination was won by blood and sacrifice, those of both the soldiers who fought to preserve the Union and […]
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