Shelby County now has the option of asking the high court to review the case.
The court is considering a challenge on the issue from Shelby County, Ala.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the liberal wing pressed the lawyer challenging Section 5, Bert Rein, representing Shelby County, Ala.
The Supreme Court already has on its calendar a case, Shelby County v.
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The Alabama dispute is from Shelby County, a largely white suburb of Birmingham.
Shelby County was one of those moments when one wished the Supreme Court allowed its oral arguments to be televised.
Attorneys for Shelby County argued that the pre-clearance requirement is outdated in a state where one-fourth of the Legislature is black.
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Shelby County is 11 percent African-American, compared with 28 percent statewide.
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While "some portions of the South have changed, " Shelby County represents "the epitome" of the wrongs Section 5 was designed to address, said Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Lawyers representing Shelby County, Alabama, have said "things have changed in the South", and that Congress should not have extended Section 5 for another 25 years in 2006.
The lawyer challenging Section 5, Bert Rein, ran into hostile fire from the court's liberal justices, who cited the high number of voting problems found in Shelby County, Ala.
John Lenhart, a consultant with Plastipak Packaging in Jackson Center, Ohio, and an officer with the Sidney-Shelby County Chamber of Commerce, said any bailout should have strong strings attached.
Mr. Rein said Shelby County didn't do anything to bring itself under Section 5 but was swept into the provision by being located in Alabama, which is covered in its entirety.
Justice Sotomayor to the lawyer representing Shelby County, Ala.
"Unless I'm missing something here, the key to it is, they should put in a game plan and execute it, with serious restraints and serious reorganization, " said Lenhart, a former five-term sheriff in Anna's Shelby County.
Shelby County and several states joining the suit say Congress did not take into account dramatic increases in voter registration and participation by minorities when it agreed to extend the law, nor discrimination problems in places not covered by the requirement.
The Supreme Court is weighing Shelby County's challenge to a portion of the law that requires states with a history of racial discrimination, mostly in the Deep South, to get approval from the Justice Department before implementing any changes in election laws.
Attorney General Eric Holder, the defendant in Shelby County's suit, told marchers that the South is far different than it was in 1965 but is not yet at the point where the most important part of the voting rights act can be dismissed as unnecessary.
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