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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 10 > Supreme Court to hear case on extended Voting Rights Act

Supreme Court to hear case on extended Voting Rights Act

By Adam Liptak / The Bulletin
January 10, 2009

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it would decide whether Congress overstepped its constitutional authority in 2006 by extending a central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The plaintiff in the case, a Texas municipal utility district, has argued that....

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