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The Law Of Democracy At A Crossroads: Reflecting On Fifty Years Of Voting Rights And The Judicial Regulation Of The Political Thicket, Franita Tolson
The Law Of Democracy At A Crossroads: Reflecting On Fifty Years Of Voting Rights And The Judicial Regulation Of The Political Thicket, Franita Tolson
Florida State University Law Review
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Rescuing Retrogression, Michael J. Pitts
Rescuing Retrogression, Michael J. Pitts
Florida State University Law Review
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Quick And Dirty: The New Misreading Of The Voting Rights Act, Justin Levitt
Quick And Dirty: The New Misreading Of The Voting Rights Act, Justin Levitt
Florida State University Law Review
The role of race in the apportionment of political power is one of the thorniest problems at the heart of American democracy, and reappears with dogged consistency on the docket of the Supreme Court. Most recently, the Court resolved a case from Alabama involving the Voting Rights Act and the appropriate use of race in redistricting. But though the Court correctly decided the narrow issue before it, the litigation posture of the case hid the fact that Alabama is part of a disturbing pattern. Jurisdictions like Alabama have been applying not the Voting Rights Act, but a ham-handed cartoon of …
Voter Welfare: An Emerging Rule Of Reason In Voting Rights Law, Samuel Issacharoff
Voter Welfare: An Emerging Rule Of Reason In Voting Rights Law, Samuel Issacharoff
Indiana Law Journal
For the first time in at least a generation, the central focus of voting rights law has returned to the issue of eligibility to cast a ballot and the act of voting itself. Unlike in prior generations, the fights over voting are centrally part of a partisan battle for electoral supremacy and are not organized around perpetuating the historic sub-ordination of minority populations—whatever the localized impact on minorities that the new voting rules may trigger. In the partisan environment, courts face claims of exclusion that only imperfectly map onto constitutional prohibitions of discrimina-tory intent or statutory protections of minority voting …