NYT:  “Emerging from the bloody protests in Selma, Ala., the Voting Rights Act was initially heralded as a declaration that the federal government would no longer tolerate the open racism of the segregated South. But this narrow mandate to… Continue reading

The Nation: On Sunday, March 3, Representative John Lewis locked arms with Luci Baines Johnson and Vice President Joe Biden and marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge here. Forty-eight years earlier, on “Bloody Sunday,” Lewis was badly beaten by Alabama… Continue reading

Amy Howe: “That leaves, as it so often does, the vote of Justice Kennedy.  And although at least one of his questions has been interpreted as signaling support for the law, for the most part his comments and questions… Continue reading

Carvin, Hebert, Thernstrom and Lindenbaum discuss Shelby County at GW Law, moderated by Spencer Overton.  Unfortunately closed to the press.

Here.