"A Bipartisan Voting Rights Act Is Possible"

The Huffington Post | Professor Spencer Overton pens an article on the new possibility of a bipartisan update to the Voting Rights Act after a bill on the subject was introduced Thursday in Congress. The bill responds to a June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which scaled back a requirement of the Voting Rights Act obligating some states to pre-clear changes to election rules. "The bill is an important first step, and it includes measures that are real building blocks for an approach that protects voters. Introduction of this bill rebuts the rhetoric of pundits who claimed, without any evidence, that the update was 'stalled.'"