Joey Fishkin has posted this draft on SSRN (Yale L.J. Online).  Here is the abstract: The plaintiffs in Shelby County v. Holder argue that section 5 of the Voting Rights Act should be struck down because it offends the “equal… Continue reading

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Richard Wolf reports for USA Today on Shelby County and Fisher.

The following press release arrived via email: New York, N.Y.–“Home of the Brave,” a powerful, award-winning 2004 documentary about murdered civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo will be released digitally as the U.S. Supreme Court considers overturning critical aspects of the… Continue reading

CLC: “This week more jurisdictions moved forward with bailouts from the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act as the Supreme Court weighs a challenge to the constitutionality of those provisions.  Yesterday, a three-judge court in Washington, DC approved… Continue reading

Gary May has written this WaPo oped.  It begins: “In the debate over the future of the Voting Rights Act , it sometimes becomes apparent that certain members of the Supreme Court are either oblivious to our nation’s recent… Continue reading