{"id":1598,"date":"2009-06-23T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2009-06-23T09:47:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:47:01","slug":"will-the-voting-rights-act-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/23\/will-the-voting-rights-act-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Voting Rights Act survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a title=\"Supreme Court sidestepping\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/22\/AR2009062200771.html?hpid=moreheadlines\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court sidestepping <\/a>a conclusive determination of whether the\u00a0Voting Rights Act remains constitutionally needed, the ultimate fate of the landmark act could wind up back in Congress.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Tracey Maclin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/maclin_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey Maclin<\/a>, a Constitutional Law expert, can discuss the possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Tracey Maclin, 617-353-4688, <a href=\"mailto:tmaclin@bu.edu\">tmaclin@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Supreme Court sidestepping a conclusive determination of whether the\u00a0Voting Rights Act remains constitutionally needed, the ultimate fate of the landmark act could wind up back in Congress.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Tracey Maclin, a Constitutional Law expert, can discuss the possibilities. Contact Tracey Maclin, 617-353-4688, tmaclin@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[533,1330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}