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State Bar & Bar Associations

Aug. 14, 2013

Clinton denounces Supreme Court's voting rights ruling

In a fiery speech at the American Bar Association annual meeting Monday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - In a fiery speech at the American Bar Association annual meeting Monday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a move that freed nine mostly Southern States to change their election laws without federal approval.


"Unless the hole opened up by the Supreme Court's ruling is ...

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