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But the Senate is now scrutinizing the sinew of the act, its pre-clearance provision; that section requires nine states and parts of 13 others with histories of voter discrimination to submit any changes in their election laws to the Justice Department for approval. The heavily Democratic Congress that included...
Still, voting right about continue. A report released by the American Civil Liberties Union last week detailed considerable discrimination against Black voters and called for an even stronger preclearance clause. Of more than 35,000 proposed voting law changes submitted in the Justice Department for approval since 1965, 850 have...
A. We agreed in 1978 to the removal of discrimination, and the constitutional proposals again contain that, so we could not really object to it now. I don't think you have any concept of the jump that had to be taken here. It was a giant leap with...
A man arrested last week by Harvard Police for impersonating a Harvard graduate pleaded guilty Tuesday and received a two-year suspended sentence with the provision that he leave the Commonwealth and not return.
Ornston said this provision should not threaten academic freedom because Celanese cannot prevent final publication. He added "proprietary research done under specific contract to a corporation shouldn't be done in the university," but added that the Celanese Yale project was very different. "I'm happiest not being distracted by...