Then, in 1962, Monroe's suicide rendered the act obsolete overnight.
The Georgia controversy also raised a question that once seemed unthinkable: Is the Voting Rights Act obsolete?
More than 480 families protested against a proposed compensation package that, they said, undervalued their homes by 50% and was based on an obsolete land acquisition act dating from 1967.
According to Carol Kino's article "Go Figure" (last Sunday), live figure drawing is back in vogue after an alleged absence during which artists considered the act obsolete and inherently sexist.
Instead, E. coli outbreaks "have almost become an annual autumn ritual," and a new day is arriving when "cost and convenience are dominant, the social meal is obsolete" and the act of eating has "devolved into an exercise in irritation, confusion and guilt".
In any case, Holder saw the new laws in North Carolina and Texas as a refutation of the Court's assertion that the Voting Rights Act was obsolete.
"In an environment of rapidly evolving technology, the capability of Asio should not be degraded by the definition of computer in the Asio Act being obsolete.
Although his handling of the patronage alienated some powerful Democrats, he scored a personal triumph when he persuaded Congress to repeal the obsolete Tenure of Office Act of 1867, which Republican senators had threatened to revive in order to embarrass him.
In practice, however, the Act is obsolete, as the Lords do not actually sit according to strict precedence; instead, peers sit with their political parties.
(Clarence Thomas dissented, arguing that the Voting Rights Act is indeed obsolete and unconstitutional).
