n 2013 the supreme court struck down section 4 ( b ) of the 1965 voting rights act.
n 2013 the supreme court struck down section 4 ( b ) of the 1965 voting rights act.
n 2013 the supreme court struck down which part of the 1965 voting rights act?
section 4 ( b )
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in 2005, georgia passed a controversial voter i.d. law which required that all voters to show photo identification at the polls, and eliminated previously accepted forms of voter identification, including social security cards, birth certificates or utility bills. as required by the voting rights act, "georgia and other states with a history of voter discrimination" (mostly southern states) are required to show that law changes will not have a discriminatory impact on minority voters, and to get approval by the department of justice under 1965 voting rights act according to rumors reported in the press, all of the staff of the civil rights division of doj, save one, recommended against the new law's approval, but schlozman and other political appointees overruled the staff and approved it. the law was initially held unconstitutional as against the georgia state constitution, but that ruling was reversed by a unanimous decision of the georgia supreme court. in federal court, u.s. district judge harold l. murphy issued an injunction against the law, holding that it was constitutionally suspect but declining to consider whether it offended the voting rights act. subsequent to the federal court decision, schlozman wrote an op-ed in the atlanta journal-constitution defending the department of justice's decision to pre-clear the voter id law under the voting rights act. although the justice department's actions were heavily criticized by liberal groups, no court has ever held that the georgia id law runs afoul of the voting rights act, the only statutory provision considered by the doj in issuing its approval of the law. in fact, the u.s. court of appeals for the 11th circuit upheld the law against all constitutional challenges.
bradley schlozman