The Supreme Court's History-Making Week

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By Keith Kloor
Jun 26, 2013 8:37 PMNov 20, 2019 5:55 AM

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The news is coming fast and furious (literally) this week. Let's start with the big Supreme Court rulings dominating headlines. Yesterday, the Supremes invalidated a key part of the U.S. Voting Rights Act, which President Obama characterized as as "setback" in the fight against discrimination. Today, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court overturned a 17-year old federal law that had limited the definition of marriage as that being between a man and woman. As the LA Timesreports, today's landmark ruling

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