DOES the re-election of the first black president mean the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unnecessary and perhaps unconstitutional? The Supreme Court’s decision last week to consider a constitutional challenge to a key section of the act suggests that a perverse outcome of the 2012 campaign may be that President Obama’s victory spells doom for the civil rights law most responsible for African-American enfranchisement.
Read more in The New York Times: http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/is-the-voting-rights-act-doomed/?src=rechp