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What Tuesday’s Voting Rights Decision Really Means

Jun 25, 2013 2:23 PM EDT

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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. PBS NewsHour regular contributor Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal explains.

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