Our initial report from today’s Supreme Court oral arguments on the Voting Rights Act.
How did it go?
This question from Chief Justice John Roberts to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., who was defending the law, gives you a good sense of the proceedings: “Is it the government’s submission that citizens in the South are more racist than citizens not in the South?”
Sahil Kapur has more.
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SCOTUSblog has some early analysis of the still-ongoing oral arguments in the Supreme Court this morning on the Voting Rights Act. It appears that things are going about as expected, with the conservative justices unpersuaded that Section 5 remains constitutional and a 5-4 vote to overturn that portion of the law looking likely.
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Oral arguments are today at 10 a.m. TPM’s Sahil Kapur will be in attendance at the court. Look for his report sometime after noon.
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