Without these protections, it is likely that many of the advances of the past few decades would be wiped out by new barriers to voting.

The court took a standard that was intelligible, easy to apply and turned it into something that is subjective, abstract and impressionistic.

The opinion of the court of appeals invalidating Ohio's discriminatory voting technology is exceptionally well-written and scholarly. It is a monument to the concept -- fundamental to American democracy -- of the equal right to vote.

We're trying to build a record. We are anticipating a challenge to what Congress might do.

She had a room just down the hall from my brother and me. We shared a bathroom.

Well, they said there has been in the past a substantial number. Some of the other criteria that the committee was required to look at did in fact look at that criteria of whether the species was likely to reduce substantially in the future and they found that there wasn't evidence to support that.