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The Forgotten Amendment And Voter Identification: How The New Wave Of Voter Identification Laws Violates The Twenty-Fourth Amendment, Brendan F. Friedman
The Forgotten Amendment And Voter Identification: How The New Wave Of Voter Identification Laws Violates The Twenty-Fourth Amendment, Brendan F. Friedman
Hofstra Law Review
The article discusses various state voter identification laws in America as of 2013, focusing on the U.S. Congress' passage of the nation's Help America Vote Act and the claim that the state voter identification laws violate the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (USC). The U.S. Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the USC are mentioned. It states that courts have upheld certain identification laws which imposed merely incidental costs.
Enforcing The Aba Guidelines In Capital State Post-Conviction Proceedings After Martinez And Pinholster, Eric M. Freedman
Enforcing The Aba Guidelines In Capital State Post-Conviction Proceedings After Martinez And Pinholster, Eric M. Freedman
Hofstra Law Review
This piece, published in Part 1 of Hofstra Law Review’s symposium marking the tenth anniversary of the ABA’s Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases, considers the converging pressures now impelling the states to provide the effective assistance of counsel in state capital post-conviction proceedings. On the one hand, Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S. Ct. 1309 (2012) - a case that will likely be expanded to a number of additional procedural and substantive contexts - warns the states that if they fail to provide such counsel, their capital convictions will be subject to searching …