{"id":191801,"date":"2009-06-22T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/22\/supreme-court-sends-clear-signal-that-section-5-of-the-voting-rights-act-is-dead-man-walking\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T04:10:00","slug":"supreme-court-sends-clear-signal-that-section-5-of-the-voting-rights-act-is-dead-man-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/22\/supreme-court-sends-clear-signal-that-section-5-of-the-voting-rights-act-is-dead-man-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Sends Clear Signal that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is Dead Man Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling itself is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-court-voting-rights23-2009jun23,0,2453659.story\">pretty narrow<\/a>, ruling against the Department of Justice in a way that effects this case only, but it also invalidated an appellate court precedent, and it&#8217;s pretty clear that this court will rule against the voting rights act on a case by case basis until they feel that there is enough precedent to kill it completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling itself is pretty narrow, ruling against the Department of Justice in a way that effects this case only, but it also invalidated an appellate court precedent, and it&#8217;s pretty clear that this court will rule against the voting rights act on a case by case basis until they feel that there is enough &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1000,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-elections","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}