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The Supreme Court Tuesday struck down Section 4 of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, effectively ruling that the heart of the historical civil rights legislation was now unconstitutional, and that Congress would need to draft a new formula for deciding which states and localities warranted federal monitoring.Moments after the Supreme Court decision, we spoke with NewsHour regular Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal. Listen to audio from her phone call or read a transcript of our brief conversation below: The court issued three
stanley cup decisions today, including one that has been closely watched by civil rights organizations.It involved the challenge to the Voting Rights Act, specifically, the court today in another split decision voted 5-4 to strike down the coverage formula under the Voting Righ
stanley cup ts Act.That a formula that determines which jurisdictions in the country are required to get preclearanc
stanley cup e, or pre-approval from the Justice Department or a federal court of any changes in their voting practices.The opinion was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and he said the Court had warned Congress in 2009 that it saw some serious problems with the Voting Rights Act coverage formula. And, today, he said in 2009 they avoided reaching the constitutional issue but could not avoid it today.Chief Justice Roberts said the act imposes current burdens on states and local jurisdictions, and those burdens have to be based on current conditions. The formula for determining who 82 Yldi Prosecutors say they will retry New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez
CAIRO 鈥?The U.N. secretary general urged Sudans generals on Sunday to reverse their takeover of the country, a day after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the largest pro-democracy protest since last weeks coup.Antonio Guterres said the generals should take heed of Saturdays protests. Time to go back to the legitimate constitutional arrangements, he said in a tweet.He was referring to a power-sharing deal that established joint military-civilian rule following the ouster of longtime
yeezy autocrat Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist government in April 2019.The U.N. envoy for Sudan, Volker Perthes, meanwhile, said he met Sunday with Abdalla Hamdok, th
salomon e deposed prime minister who remained under house arrest in the capital Khartoum. We discussed options for mediation and the way forward for Sudan. I will continue these efforts with other Sudanese stakeholders, he said.Since last week, U.N. representatives have shuttled between the militar
stanley cup y and leaders of the pro-democracy movement.A military official said that other efforts are underway, also supported by the U.N. but conducted by a Sudanese committee that began separate meetings last week with Hamdok and coup leader Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity as he wasnt authorized to release the information, said that Hamdok is still the main candidate for heading a Cabinet that would report to the leading generals. But should he not accept, other Sudanese figures could.It remains unc
