June 25, 2013

Fox's Napolitano Ignores Continuing Voter Discrimination To Applaud SCOTUS Decision On Voting Rights Act

www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/25/foxs-napolitano-ignores-continuing-voter-discri/194600
"Despite Napolitano's claims to the contrary, the Voting Rights Act has continued to protect voters from discriminatory voting changes. Legal analyst Andrew Cohen criticized the decision in a post at The Atlanticnoting that Section 4 was "invoked more than 700 times between 1982 and 2006 to block racially discrimination [sic] voting measures." A Mother Jones article quoted Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who, in her dissent to the decision, pointed out "eight examples of race-based voter discrimination in recent history"."