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(Mississippi, by the way, signed a brief urging the court to uphold Section 5).
In 2000 Souter embarked on a personal crusade to uphold Section 28.
It was hardly clear, at any rate, that the court's conservative majority would uphold Section 5 if the question returned to the court in the unlikely event that Congress enacted a new coverage formula.
In 2009, the Supreme Court voted 8 to 1 to uphold Section 5, but Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote that the section now raises "serious constitutional questions" and "must be justified by current needs".
But there is reason to hope that he will vote to uphold Section 5, because in cases on constitutional rights where the facts make clear an injustice, he tends to hew less to the simplicity of conservative ideology and to look for more nuanced solutions.
I applaud the work of the ACLU and President Obama for fighting to uphold Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
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Mr. Payton assisted in the arguments leading to the Supreme Court's 8-to-1 decision upholding Section 5.
When the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Shelby County's challenge and upheld Section 5 last year, the vote was 2 to 1.
Perhaps as a result of this new opening, when an astrologer named Suresh Koushal filed an appeal against the judgment in the Supreme Court, fifteen other parties joined him and the original litigants to support upholding Section 377.
In 2013, another panel of the Supreme Court upheld Section 377. .
While a federal court has upheld Section 702, privacy watchdogs are still challenging the rule's constitutionality.
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