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Politics: President Lyndon B. Johnson Newsletter for 2025-12-14 ( 1 items )  
Voting Rights Act of 1965 at 60 Years - Key Supreme Court Decisions Shaping the Law Today Topic of White Paper From CRS (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper (No. LSB11382) on Dec. 10, 2025, by legislative attorney L. Paige Whitaker: * * * The Voting Rights Act of 1965 at 60 Years: Key Supreme Court Decisions Shaping the Law Today The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) turned 60 this year. On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the VRA into law "[t]o enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution." Since its enactment more PR