handful of counties outside the south have to be supervised, as you said. and there was a formula in there based on voting patterns in the 1960s. what the supreme court said today by a vote of 5-4 is that times have changed. sometimes have changed so much that that formula is invalid. and we, the united states, cannot use that formula any more to determine which states skr discrimina discriminate, so that part of the law is invalid. what that means in practice is that the other part of the law, section five, which says those states have to be in supervision, that is dormant. that doesn t matter any more until and unless congress goes back and comes one a modern formula. so section 4 and section 5 are out for now. but now it s up to congress and the president to determine if there are going to be any parts of the country any more that are
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[ male announcer ] now get 50% off brake pads and shoes at meineke. the u.s. supreme court has ruled on a voting rights case. it s a historical case. let s head to washington and check in with jake tapper. thanks, carol. that s right. the ruling has been expected for some time in this very in this week where the justices are going to be issuing rulings on a whole number of controversial sublths. this has to do with a key provision of the voting rights act. the voting rights act which was passed into law in 1965 requiring that some states and counties be supervised by the federal government because of histories of discrimination in voting in those states and counties. let s go now to my colleague, jeff tubin who is here to talk about what exactly was struck down in this important piece of legislation. the voting rights act of 1965 said that nine states and a
equipped with metal detectors trudged through woods just outside the upscale community where new england patriot aaron hernandez lives. no word on what they were looking for or what, if anything, they found. no hernandez sightings during the day on monday. he remains the focus on a murder investigation into the shooting death of a friend, oden lloyd, whez body was found less than a mile from hernandez s home. the tight end has had brushes with the law before, but nothing like this. he s being sued by a man who claims hernandez shut out his right eye in february after leaving a miami strip club, but alexander bradley, seen here in april in a hartford, connecticut, mugshot from an unrelated incident did not press charges or identify hernandez. in his hometown of bristol, connecticut, hernandez is remembered as a high school football phenom. he s, like, the hero of our school. never in a million years would i think of anything like that happening to him. the patriots saw a bright
russia s foreign minister. translator: he independently chose his route and we learned, as did everyone else, from the mass media. he did not cross the russian border and we think all of the attempts we are now witnessing, attempts to accuse the russian side of violating u.s. law and almost conspireing, accompanied by threats towards us are unfounded and unacceptable. ecuador also brushing off washington s call to block asylum in that country. ecuador s president tweeting, we will make with absolute sovereignty the decision we believe is most appropriate. he ended his tweet, oddly, with this, a big hug to everyone and happy week. the u.s. says snowden s betrayal should not be taken lightly. people may die as a consequence of what this man did. it is possible the united states will be attacked because terrorists may now know how to protect themselves in some way