The Supreme Court has ruled that Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District 1 can a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_go_ot/us_supreme_court_voting_rights_3"opt out/a of the advance approval requirement of the law.br /br /But, in a narrow ruling, sure to disappoint the hard-line conservatives who had hoped to have the VRA junked, or at least parts of it, per Justice Thomas, declared unconstitutional, got nothing else they wanted, including, above all, the entire provision NOT being junked. And, the Chief, Roberts, appeared OK with that.br /br /In fact, so did the other “hard-line conservatives,” with the exception of Thomas, and so did the more moderate members, as it passed on an 8-1 line. a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/section-5-survives-2/"ScotusBlog has more/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-5270137331542130853?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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