“The Demise of Section 5? It’s become a politicized weapon wielded by the Justice Department.”
John Fund at National Review.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Justice Scalia’s Warped Political Process Theory: Not Much Democracy, A Lot of Distrust”
“The Supreme Court could strike down part of the Voting Rights Act. Here’s what that would mean”
Audio Posted of Shelby County Oral Argument
You can listen (and read the tea leaves) here.
“What the Voting Rights Act Argument Was Really About”
Bryan Tyson, who worked for Rep. Lynn Westmoreland during the 2006 VRA reauthorization, penned this oped.
Rep. Westmoreland and I were strange bedfellows back in 2006, when he (a conservative Republican) pushed my proposal to have “proactive bailout” added… Continue reading
“The threat from within — the ironic challenge to the Voting Rights Act (opinion from U.S. Rep. Terri A. Sewell)”
Op-ed from Alabama member of Congress.
“Why the Predictions Could Be Wrong in Shelby County”
“Massachusetts official challenges Chief Justice Roberts’ claim about voting”
Boston Globe: “Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. certainly sounded authoritative when he made a striking, though unflattering, declaration about Massachusetts as the high court heard arguments over the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which is designed… Continue reading
Striking Section 5 Would Be Bad, But Would Not Return Us to 1964
Tom Curry makes the point nicely, a good response to HuffPo’s breathless headline of the other day “Back to 1964?” But some things would get worse. Curry writes: ” Would parts of the country now covered by section 5 revert… Continue reading
“Maddow Compares J. Scalia to Internet Troll, Describes Shelby County Oral Argument”
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“Has Power Tipped in Favor of the High Court?”
Amanda Becker has written this piece for Roll Call, which begins with comments made at yesterday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Shelby County about Congress.
The article discusses my soon to be published Southern California Law Review article, End of … Continue reading
“Americans risk losing our most sacred right”
Bill Press on Shelby County.
More SCOTUSBlog Shelby County Commentaries
Now by Ellen Katz and Abby Thernstrom.