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Kevin Morris

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In the years leading up to the 1965 Act, Congress had expanded the powers of the government to sue over voting rights violations. But it wasn't enough--litigation is time consuming, and localities would often just switch to a new way of discriminating when the old way was blocked

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Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act "flipped the script." Now, states and localities would have to prove that they wouldn't violate the 15th Amendment _before_ a policy could go into effect. Wohoo!

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