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Decolonizing Equal Sovereignty, Rosa Hayes
Decolonizing Equal Sovereignty, Rosa Hayes
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
In Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), the Supreme Court announced that a tradition of equal sovereignty among the states prohibits unwarranted federal intrusions into state sovereignty and invoked this newly created doctrine to strike down Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act. Scholarly critiques in Shelby County’s immediate aftermath debated the constitutional validity of the Court’s equal sovereignty reasoning and warned of the dire threat the VRA’s effacement posed to voting rights—concerns that recent litigation have vindicated.
But other recent litigation suggests that, abstracted from its problematic and consequential origins, equal sovereignty may be deployed …
Do Not Pass Go And Do Not Collect $200: Denying Medical Insurance To Parents Who Register Themselves Before Registering Their Children, Amanda Hamm
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
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