Voting rights and wrongs: Court makes correct decision on VRA
Last Modified: Friday, July 5, 2013 at 10:42 a.m.  On June 25,
the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County
Alabama v. Holder, the Voting Rights Act case. That evening
Brian Williams, the NBC Nightly News anchor, opened the
broadcast by saying, "as one reporter put it, the U.S. Supreme
Court has driven a stake through the heart of the most important
civil rights law ever enacted, the Voting Rights Act."
Editor’s note:  Lee Goldman’s June 30 column on the Supreme
Court decision in Fisher v. the University of Texas received
national attention in SCOTUSblog.  In a single sentence, while
hiding behind an anonymous reporter, Williams disgraced himself,
the profession of journalism and distorted the truth! Not bad
for a guy who makes $10 million a year!  The VRA was signed into
law in 1965. The Senate and House had passed it with huge
bipartisan majorities, including well more than 80 percent of
the Republicans and both of their leaders