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Women’s Ratification explored Sunday

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With “From Radical Idea to Ratification: Women’s Voting Rights,” the Old Courthouse Regional History Forum Series for 2020 starts this Saturda…

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AG urges restoring voting rights to ex-inmates

  • PETE YOST, Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday urged states to restore voting rights to former prison inmates, an issue he said primarily affects African-Americans.

Voting rights law gets Supreme Court challenge
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Voting rights law gets Supreme Court challenge

  • MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The most potent weapon in fighting discrimination at the ballot box was before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case that weighs the nation’s enormous progress in civil rights against the need to continue to protect minority voters.