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The voting rights of people of color suffered a huge blow last week, hitting Latinos particularly hard.The same day the Supreme Court invalidated a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that helped protect the right to vote for disenfranchised racial and ethnic minorities in select parts of the country, a top Texas state official made headlines by saying Texas would “immediately” enact a strict voter ID law. A panel of federal judges rejected the law last year, which it referred to as “the most stringent in the country,” adding that it would impose “unforgiving burdens on the poor.” Texas is home to the nation’s second-largest concentration of Latinos (9.5 million).
WEST POINT, N.Y.
Texas Republicans began trying again Tuesday to pass one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S.
Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born Muslim cleric who was killed by a U.S.
