Voting Rights Act

[voh-ting rahyts akt]

noun

U.S. Government.

1. a law enacted in 1965 that prohibited racially discriminatory voting practices, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, appointed federal examiners to facilitate voter registration among members of minority groups, and established federal oversight over election administration. VRA

Example Sentences

Holder, accusing the chief justice of “daydreaming a textually-unsupported rule” to maim the Voting Rights Act.

From Slate

The Board of Education for Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

From Salon

In reality, it may be the vehicle by which the Roberts court’s conservative supermajority will end what is left of the storied Voting Rights Act of 1965, which is the best possible vehicle for challenges to racial discrimination in voting practices.

From Slate

In early August, the court issued a troubling order asking the parties to specifically brief the argument that Louisiana’s compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is in fact unconstitutional under a view of the Constitution that demands complete colorblindness.

From Slate

And then on Aug. 1, Friday after 5 p.m., the Supreme Court puts out an oblique order that basically says, “We want to know if race-conscious districting as required by Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act could ever be a compelling interest.”

From Slate