The Gutting of the Voting Rights Act Could Decide the 2016 Election

[merrily]

1. THREE YEARS AGO, the SCOTUS held that the Voting Rights Act could not

be used against certain states--and only those states-- because the information on which the 1965 Act had been based was too old (48 years old as of 2013). At least, that is my understanding of that case. In any event, Congress has plenty of power under the the Constitution to pass voting bills to protect the voting rights of groups that get discriminated against, starting with, but not limited to, African Americans (though probably not women).

By now, Congress could have updated the information and passed new voting rights legislaton. It hasn't. I don't know which organizations, if any, have been putting pressure on Congress to update the information.