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Libya’s current prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, is a former president of the Al Ittihad team. 1.000

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Simplified: Libya's prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh is a former president of the Al Ittihad team.

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The militiaman, known as Ghaniwa, was also the honorary president of the Al Ahli team. 1.000

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Simplified: Abdul Ghani Al-Kikli was the honorary president of the Al Ahli team.

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In May, the western half of the Libyan championship was paused as fierce fighting broke out in Tripoli, the capital, after forces loyal to the transitional government killed one of the city’s top mili... 1.000

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Simplified: The western Libyan championship was paused in May due to fighting in Tripoli after the death of militia leader Abdul Ghani Al-Kikli.

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One competition is played in the east, a region overseen by a military strongman, and another is played in the west, where a transitional government struggles for legitimacy. 1.000

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Simplified: One soccer competition is in eastern Libya overseen by a military strongman another in western Libya with a struggling transitional government.

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Libya’s soccer league mirrors its politics. 1.000

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Simplified: Libya's soccer league mirrors its politics.

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The game was part of a curious collaboration between Italian and Libyan authorities that for a second year running will see Libya’s soccer champion crowned on Sunday in Italy, at the completion of a s... 1.000

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Simplified: The game was part of an Italian-Libyan collaboration that will crown Libya's soccer champion in Italy for a second year.

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The transplanted tournament is a striking example of the security and political crisis that continues to plague Libya more than a decade after the bloody overthrow of its longtime dictator, Col. Muamm... 1.000

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Simplified: The tournament exemplifies the security and political crisis in Libya after the overthrow of Muammar el-Qaddafi.

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A graduate of Yale Law School, he practiced law for 14 years before joining The Times in 2002. 1.000

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Simplified: Adam Liptak graduated from Yale Law School practiced law for 14 years before joining The Times in 2002.

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Adam Liptak covers the Supreme Court and writes Sidebar, a column on legal developments. 1.000

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Simplified: Adam Liptak covers the Supreme Court and writes Sidebar.

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Accepting the Eight Circuit’s theory, Professor Karlan said, would cripple the law calling the private right of action “critical to having a V.R.A. at all.” 0.800

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Simplified: Professor Karlan said accepting the Eighth Circuit's theory would cripple the Voting Rights Act.

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The Supreme Court paused the Eight Circuit’s ruling last month, but it may well agree to hear a promised appeal in the coming months, particularly as three members of the court — Justices Clarence Tho... 0.900

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Simplified: The Supreme Court paused the Eighth Circuit's ruling but may hear an appeal as Justices Thomas Alito and Gorsuch dissented.

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A theory recently adopted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit says that only the government, not voters and other private parties, can sue to enforce the provision. 1.000

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Simplified: The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals says only the government can sue to enforce Section 2.

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That would make it easy, he said, to draw completely Republican maps in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and elsewhere. 0.800

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Simplified: Eliminating minority-opportunity districts would make it easy to draw completely Republican maps in several states.

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Holding Section 2 unconstitutional could be a boon for Republicans, said Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a law professor at Harvard, as it would allow states to eliminate minority-opportunity districts altog... 0.800

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Simplified: Nicholas Stephanopoulos said holding Section 2 unconstitutional could benefit Republicans by allowing states to eliminate minority-opportunity distric...

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That happens, the provision goes on, when racial minorities have less opportunity to elect representatives of their choice than other voters. 1.000

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Simplified: Denial of voting rights happens when racial minorities have less opportunity to elect representatives.

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Section 2 bars any voting procedure that “results in a denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race.” 1.000

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Simplified: Section 2 bars any voting procedure that denies or abridges the right to vote on account of race.

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The question was a doozy, asking the parties to file supplemental briefs on whether Louisiana’s “intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fi... 1.000

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Simplified: The question asked if Louisiana's creation of a second majority-minority district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.

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In their order in June in the new case from Louisiana, the justices said they would pose additional questions “in due course.” 1.000

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Simplified: In June the justices said they would pose additional questions in due course in the Louisiana case.

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They chose the evening of Friday, Aug. 1 to do so. 1.000

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Simplified: The justices chose the evening of Friday Aug 1 to pose additional questions.

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That decision, which allowed unlimited campaign spending by corporations and unions, overturned two precedents and struck down part of a bipartisan 2002 law that sought to limit the role of money in p... 1.000

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Simplified: Citizens United allowed unlimited campaign spending overturned two precedents and struck down part of a 2002 law.

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