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Transparent Adjudication: Promoting Democratic Dialogue On Judicial Conceptions Of Politics, Bertrall L. Ross Ii
Transparent Adjudication: Promoting Democratic Dialogue On Judicial Conceptions Of Politics, Bertrall L. Ross Ii
Bertrall L Ross
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The Representative Equality Principle: Disaggregating The Equal Protection Intent Standard, Bertrall L. Ross Ii
The Representative Equality Principle: Disaggregating The Equal Protection Intent Standard, Bertrall L. Ross Ii
Bertrall L Ross
Challenges under the Equal Protection Clause require proof of intentional discrimination. Though rarely questioned by legal scholars or the courts, that conventional account cannot explain the success of equal protection challenges to electoral structures that dilute the vote of racial minorities. In the Supreme Court’s most recent decisions on vote dilution, the Court has invalidated local electoral structures under the Equal Protection Clause to the extent that they deprive African Americans of the opportunity for effective representation in the political process. The Court has reached its decisions despite the absence of any proof of intentional discrimination in the adoption of …