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Mirroring Reality? An Examination Of Popular Culture’S Depiction Of Female Attorneys In Contrast With The Female Attorney’S Real World, Jena Smith-Malfatti
Mirroring Reality? An Examination Of Popular Culture’S Depiction Of Female Attorneys In Contrast With The Female Attorney’S Real World, Jena Smith-Malfatti
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Voting Rights, Reapportionment, And Majority-Minority Districts, Christy Tosh
Voting Rights, Reapportionment, And Majority-Minority Districts, Christy Tosh
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The challenge is to navigate the untrodden area of reapportionment, in particular majority-minority districts. The Supreme Court has ruled in various reapportionment cases, yet these cases continue to plague the dockets of the United States Supreme Court. The focus of research is to evaluate the new phenomenon of majority-minority districts as it has progressed through constitutional amendments, civil and voting rights acts, and Supreme Court cases, all of which culminate in the 1992 elections. The 1990 Census and reapportionment were the birth of majority-minority districts. In creating these districts, one must look at the most effective percentage breakdowns in each …