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Shelby County a month later : Has the sky fallen on minority voting rights?

July 30, 2013 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

When the Supreme Court issued Shelby County v. Holder last month, Chicken Littles on the left almost immediately began shouting that is was “a blow to democracy,” or that it obstructs “Americans’ fundamental right to vote,” or even that “the Court has left millions of minority voters without the mechanism that h ...