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Top Civil Rights Lawyers: Discriminatory Jim Crow Voting Laws Abound. A year after a conservative U.S. Supreme Court majority gutted the crown jewel of the civil rights movement, the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), the nation’s foremost voting rights attorneys say that racial discrimination in voting is rampant, especially in southern states where the VRA helped to ensure access to the ballot.
Justice Ginsburg Wants “Equal Dignity” for Women in Court Decisions. Supreme Court rulings on gay rights are progressively pushing forward, while decisions related to women’s equality are moving in the opposite direction, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says.