Selective prosecution.The U.S. Department of Justice filed the first federal lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. under the Voting Rights Act Voting Rights Act Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1965 to ensure the voting rights of African Americans. Though the Constitution's 15th Amendment (passed 1870) had guaranteed the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites, reports The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. The government says that the chairman of Mississippi's Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee allegedly engaged in "relentless voting-related racial discrimination," such as "publishing a list of voters, all white, accompanied by a warning that they would be challenged at the polls." |
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